diff -Nur virt-manager-0.8.2/src/virtManager/console.py virt-manager-0.8.2-ssh-tunnel/src/virtManager/console.py
--- virt-manager-0.8.2/src/virtManager/console.py	2009-12-14 16:40:30.000000000 -0600
+++ virt-manager-0.8.2-ssh-tunnel/src/virtManager/console.py	2010-02-04 11:40:17.000000000 -0600
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import gtkvnc
 import os
 import socket
+import signal
 
 from virtManager.error import vmmErrorDialog
 
@@ -534,7 +535,7 @@
         logging.debug("Shutting down tunnel PID %d FD %d" %
                       (self.vncTunnel[1], self.vncTunnel[0].fileno()))
         self.vncTunnel[0].close()
-        os.waitpid(self.vncTunnel[1], 0)
+        os.kill(self.vncTunnel[1], signal.SIGTERM)
         self.vncTunnel = None
 
     def try_login(self, src=None):