[virt-tools-list] virt-manager slow via SSH - but NOT the console

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/17/2012 07:10 PM, Felicitus wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm using virt-manager via SSH. The docs say that the _initial_
> connect could be slow, which is correct in my case.
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> However, anything I do within virt-manager is also slow, for example,
> adding new hardware takes almost a minute to display the extra window,
> and navigating to the "network device" section takes 5 minutes.
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> The odd thing is that the VNC console is actually very fast.
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> This seems to be very odd, and I really don't know where to start
> debugging. Any hints how to get more debug output from virt-manager?
> 
> Thanks,
> Felicitus

I assume the latency to the remote system is pretty high, ping will confirm.
If that's the case, virt-manager is known to be difficult to use, since all
the libvirt API calls we do behind the scenes need to do round trips which
really slows things down. Unfortunately there really isn't a good solution
that I know of.

- Cole