Re: various iotests failures apparently due to overly optimistic timeout settings

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 15:12, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/20/20 6:46 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > John, I think this is a result of your recent python/qemu/ changes that
> > make failure of graceful shutdown an error rather than just silently
> > falling back to SIGKILL.
> >
> > Should the default timeout be longer, should iotests override the
> > default, or should iotests just always kill their VM instead of trying
> > to shut it down gracefully?

> Let's make it longer. Since you are seeing the failures, can you edit
> python/qemu/machine.py and find the default timeout of 3 seconds for
> shutdown() and change it to 10? 30? 60?

Not conveniently, because this is for merge pull requests, and
all the iotests failures are nested inside the tests/vm BSD VM
setup.

thanks
-- PMM