diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/io/shim_io.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/io/shim_io.rs
index 7559fe2ee4..db3ce99891 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/io/shim_io.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/io/shim_io.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@
 
 use std::{
     io,
-    os::unix::{io::FromRawFd, net::UnixStream as StdUnixStream},
+    os::unix::{
+        io::{FromRawFd, RawFd},
+        net::UnixStream as StdUnixStream,
+        prelude::AsRawFd,
+    },
     pin::Pin,
     task::Context as TaskContext,
     task::Poll,
@@ -52,8 +56,21 @@ impl ShimIo {
             "new shim io stdin {:?} stdout {:?} stderr {:?}", stdin, stdout, stderr
         );
 
+        let set_flag_with_blocking = |fd: RawFd| {
+            let flag = unsafe { libc::fcntl(fd, libc::F_GETFL) };
+            let ret = unsafe { libc::fcntl(fd, libc::F_SETFL, flag & !libc::O_NONBLOCK) };
+            if ret < 0 {
+                error!(sl!(), "failed to set fcntl for fd {} error {}", fd, ret);
+            }
+        };
+
         let stdin_fd: Option<Box<dyn AsyncRead + Send + Unpin>> = if let Some(stdin) = stdin {
             info!(sl!(), "open stdin {:?}", &stdin);
+
+            // Since the stdin peer point (which is hold by containerd) could not be openned
+            // immediately, which would block here's open with block mode, and we wouldn't want to
+            // block here, thus here opened with nonblock and then reset it to block mode for
+            // tokio async io.
             match OpenOptions::new()
                 .read(true)
                 .write(false)
@@ -61,7 +78,11 @@ impl ShimIo {
                 .open(&stdin)
                 .await
             {
-                Ok(file) => Some(Box::new(file)),
+                Ok(file) => {
+                    // Set it to blocking to avoid infinitely handling EAGAIN when the reader is empty
+                    set_flag_with_blocking(file.as_raw_fd());
+                    Some(Box::new(file))
+                }
                 Err(err) => {
                     error!(sl!(), "failed to open {} error {:?}", &stdin, err);
                     None
diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/process.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/process.rs
index 559475b74a..5953f2f69b 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/process.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/runtimes/virt_container/src/container_manager/process.rs
@@ -133,22 +133,14 @@ impl Process {
         let io_name = io_name.to_string();
         let logger = self.logger.new(o!("io_name" => io_name));
         let _ = tokio::spawn(async move {
-            loop {
-                match tokio::io::copy(&mut reader, &mut writer).await {
-                    Err(e) => {
-                        if let Some(error_code) = e.raw_os_error() {
-                            if error_code == libc::EAGAIN {
-                                continue;
-                            }
-                        }
-                        warn!(logger, "run_io_copy: failed to copy stream: {}", e);
-                    }
-                    Ok(length) => {
-                        warn!(logger, "run_io_copy: stop to copy stream length {}", length)
-                    }
-                };
-                break;
-            }
+            match tokio::io::copy(&mut reader, &mut writer).await {
+                Err(e) => {
+                    warn!(logger, "run_io_copy: failed to copy stream: {}", e);
+                }
+                Ok(length) => {
+                    info!(logger, "run_io_copy: stop to copy stream length {}", length)
+                }
+            };
 
             wgw.done();
         });