Re: tests/vm infrastructure fails to notice that QEMU dying is a failure

[John Snow]

On 7/18/20 5:30 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 23:24, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> > - The real problem, though: Why is QEMU hanging? It might need a longer
> > timeout, or it might be having problems with the console socket again.
>
> The host machine seemed to be under really heavy I/O load at the time.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM

Kevin's reporting problems too, with a 3 second wait being too 
optimistic. Let's extend the timeout a bit, which should help in that case.

(Avoiding exceptions in the atexit handler will take a little longer 
perhaps, but I will start working on that too.)

--js