[Bug 1481295] Re: virt-manager after upgrade: Error polling connection 'qemu:///system': internal error: could not get interface XML description: File operation failed - Failed to read (null)

The root cause is netcf not handling network alias https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185850 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0363.html Patch located in this post: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/netcf-devel/2015-January/000924.html ** Also affects: netcf (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1481295] Re: virt-manager after upgrade: Error polling connection 'qemu:///system': internal error: could not get interface XML description: File operation failed - Failed to read (null)

Putthing this in debian/patch/fix-virtmanager and adding fix-virtmanager to debian/patch/series solved this issue: diff --git a/src/dutil_linux.c b/src/dutil_linux.c index a3b0176..5d69d19 100644 --- a/src/dutil_linux.c +++ b/src/dutil_linux.c @@ -1041,7 +1041,14 @@ static void