* Do you see this only with windows guests? No, most of our KVM machines are Debian and/or Ubuntu. I didn't yet tried a Windows guest.
* Is there a linux distribution/release with which you can reproduce this?
Distribution/release which works as expected:
# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid
virt-manager (0.3.10-2ubuntu2.2) libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 (0.3.10-2ubuntu2.2) python-gtk-vnc (0.3.10-2ubuntu2.2)
Distribution which works slow: # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise
virt-manager (0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1) libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 (0.5.0-1ubuntu1) libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (0.5.0-1ubuntu1) python-gtk-vnc (0.5.0-1ubuntu1)
* Do you see this only with windows guests?
No, most of our KVM machines are Debian and/or Ubuntu. I didn't yet tried a Windows guest.
* Is there a linux distribution/ release with which you can reproduce this?
Distribution/ release which works as expected:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
virt-manager (0.3.10-2ubuntu2.2)
libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 (0.3.10-2ubuntu2.2)
python-gtk-vnc (0.3.10-2ubuntu2.2)
Distribution which works slow:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
virt-manager (0.9.1-1ubuntu5.1)
libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 (0.5.0-1ubuntu1)
libgtk-vnc-2.0-0 (0.5.0-1ubuntu1)
python-gtk-vnc (0.5.0-1ubuntu1)