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This was actually fixed as bug 574017 in libvirt-0.8.2-12.el5, which went into RHEL-5.6: Author: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar> Date: Fri Nov 5 13:51:50 2010 +0100 qemu: Wire up text monitor events Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574017 This patch wires up async events sent through qemu's text monitor to libvirt events. The main purpose is to update guest's state if it was stopped because of an I/O error. While I was at it, I wired up other events as well. Unfortunately, this is a RHEL-5-only patch since upstream qemu has no support for event notifications in text monitor. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 574017 ***