Reference: bnc#874594 When the 'Power on virtual machine' button is double clicked, virt-manager issues two start commands to start the VM which results in a failure. There is code elsewhere to desensitize the button but this patch does it earlier. Index: virt-manager-1.4.3/virtManager/details.py =================================================================== --- virt-manager-1.4.3.orig/virtManager/details.py +++ virt-manager-1.4.3/virtManager/details.py @@ -1449,6 +1449,9 @@ class vmmDetails(vmmGObjectUI): def control_vm_run(self, src_ignore): if self.has_unapplied_changes(self.get_hw_row()): return + # De-sensitize widget so a double click on the icon won't attempt to + # start the VM twice + self.widget("control-run").set_sensitive(False) self.emit("action-run-domain", self.vm.conn.get_uri(), self.vm.get_connkey())