From: ? Upstream: xen-unstable SIGKILL causes atexit to not be called, so mouse SDL cleanup wasn't performed, so mouse wasn't released. Index: xen-3.0.4-testing/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py =================================================================== --- xen-3.0.4-testing.orig/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py +++ xen-3.0.4-testing/tools/python/xen/xend/image.py @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ class HVMImageHandler(ImageHandler): self.unregister_reboot_feature_watch(); if self.pid: try: - os.kill(self.pid, signal.SIGKILL) + os.kill(self.pid, signal.SIGTERM) except OSError, exn: log.exception(exn) try: