diff --git a/bin/qemush b/bin/qemush
index 4991c99..97b2b2e 100755
--- a/bin/qemush
+++ b/bin/qemush
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ error_usage() {
 public_start() {
     QEMUSH_NAME="$1"
 
+    set -- "$@" \
+        -monitor "unix:$(sockpath),server,nowait" \
+        -daemonize
     if ! "$@"; then
         perror "error launching virtual machine \"${QEMUSH_NAME}\""
         return 2
diff --git a/qemu/launchers/kvm b/qemu/launchers/kvm
index 82ef336..772ce41 100755
--- a/qemu/launchers/kvm
+++ b/qemu/launchers/kvm
@@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-# Retrieve the name of the monitor socket
-from subprocess import CalledProcessError
-try:
-    from subprocess import check_output
-    socket = 'unix:%s,server,nowait' % (check_output(["sockpath"], text=True))
-except CalledProcessError as e:
-    exit(e.returncode)
-
 # Set number of vCPUs to use to the environment variable QEMUSH_NPROC or
 # half of total vCPUs installed if it fails
 try:
@@ -30,8 +22,7 @@ except KeyError:
 from sys import argv
 command = [
     'qemu-system-x86_64',
-    '-enable-kvm', '-daemonize',
-    '-monitor', socket,
+    '-enable-kvm',
     '-M', 'q35',
     '-cpu', 'host', '-smp', nproc,
     '-m', ram,