I can confirm this is the case, and that this bug has lingered without a reply for two years and a half already :-(
The log flooding happens only when virt-manager is open (because it keeps polling several files for displaying the guests' status). The messages also appear when querying for specific information using virsh: # dommemstat --domain sirf error: Failed to get memory statistics for domain sirf error: Unable to read from '/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/machine/lxc-29895-sirf.libvirt-lxc/memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes': No such file or directory Curiously, when querying for full domain information, the data y scorrectly returned: virsh # dominfo --domain lafa Id: 38611 Name: lafa UUID: 0d4041d2-327b-42f0-8433-6aeb05beb36b OS Type: exe State: running CPU(s): 1 CPU time: 2374.6s Max memory: 2097152 KiB Used memory: 1740144 KiB Persistent: yes Autostart: enable Managed save: no Security model: apparmor Security DOI: 0