diff --git a/client-common/vm.py b/client-common/vm.py
index 42e59e3d..95b7952f 100644
--- a/client-common/vm.py
+++ b/client-common/vm.py
@@ -529,30 +529,35 @@ def follow_console_log(zk_conn, domain, lines=10):
     # Print the initial data and begin following
     print(loglines, end='')
 
-    while True:
-        # Grab the next line set
-        new_console_log = zkhandler.readdata(zk_conn, '/domains/{}/consolelog'.format(dom_uuid))
-        # Split the new and old log strings into constitutent lines
-        old_console_loglines = console_log.split('\n')
-        new_console_loglines = new_console_log.split('\n')
-        # Set the console log to the new log value for the next iteration
-        console_log = new_console_log
-        # Remove the lines from the old log until we hit the first line of the new log; this
-        # ensures that the old log is a string that we can remove from the new log entirely
-        for index, line in enumerate(old_console_loglines, start=0):
-            if line == new_console_loglines[0]:
-                del old_console_loglines[0:index]
-                break
-        # Rejoin the log lines into strings
-        old_console_log = '\n'.join(old_console_loglines)
-        new_console_log = '\n'.join(new_console_loglines)
-        # Remove the old lines from the new log
-        diff_console_log = new_console_log.replace(old_console_log, "")
-        # If there's a difference, print it out
-        if diff_console_log:
-            print(diff_console_log, end='')
-        # Wait a second
-        time.sleep(1)
+    try:
+        while True:
+            # Grab the next line set
+            new_console_log = zkhandler.readdata(zk_conn, '/domains/{}/consolelog'.format(dom_uuid))
+            # Split the new and old log strings into constitutent lines
+            old_console_loglines = console_log.split('\n')
+            new_console_loglines = new_console_log.split('\n')
+            # Set the console log to the new log value for the next iteration
+            console_log = new_console_log
+            # Remove the lines from the old log until we hit the first line of the new log; this
+            # ensures that the old log is a string that we can remove from the new log entirely
+            for index, line in enumerate(old_console_loglines, start=0):
+                if line == new_console_loglines[0]:
+                    del old_console_loglines[0:index]
+                    break
+            # Rejoin the log lines into strings
+            old_console_log = '\n'.join(old_console_loglines)
+            new_console_log = '\n'.join(new_console_loglines)
+            # Remove the old lines from the new log
+            diff_console_log = new_console_log.replace(old_console_log, "")
+            # If there's a difference, print it out
+            if diff_console_log:
+                print(diff_console_log, end='')
+            # Wait a second
+            time.sleep(1)
+    except kazoo.exceptions.NoNodeError:
+        return False, 'ERROR: VM has gone away.'
+    except:
+        return False, 'ERROR: Lost connection to Zookeeper node.'
 
     return True, ''