References: bnc#892003
For very large memory VMs Xen takes a long time scrubbing memory
which causes the libvirt connection to timeout. Upstream was not
interested in making this a preferences option (4/11/2015)
Index: virt-manager-2.2.1/virtManager/connection.py
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--- virt-manager-2.2.1.orig/virtManager/connection.py
+++ virt-manager-2.2.1/virtManager/connection.py
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ class vmmConnection(vmmGObject):
         self._add_conn_events()
 
         try:
-            self._backend.setKeepAlive(20, 1)
+            self._backend.setKeepAlive(20, 10)
         except Exception as e:
             if (not isinstance(e, AttributeError) and
                 not self.support.is_error_nosupport(e)):