Looks to be the same cycle for me with the Precise version of virt-manager. This is just after startup with no autoconnection.
10:29:19 fork 6572 child /usr/bin/python /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py 10:29:19 exit 6572 0 0.000 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py 10:29:21 fork 1 parent /sbin/ini 10:29:21 fork 6573 child /usr/bin/python /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py 10:29:21 exit 6573 0 0.000 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py
Looks to be the same cycle for me with the Precise version of virt-manager. This is just after startup with no autoconnection.
10:29:19 fork 6572 child /usr/bin/python /usr/share/ virt-manager/ virt-manager. py virt-manager/ virt-manager. py virt-manager/ virt-manager. py virt-manager/ virt-manager. py
10:29:19 exit 6572 0 0.000 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/
10:29:21 fork 1 parent /sbin/ini
10:29:21 fork 6573 child /usr/bin/python /usr/share/
10:29:21 exit 6573 0 0.000 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/