On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:36:51PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote: > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453491 > > We've been getting bug reports like the above against virt-manager for a > while now: installing new VMs consistently throws an error 'Timed out > while reading monitor startup output'. The user can then just retry the > install and it will go off without a hitch. > > I only just realized that the common thread between the reports is > physical install media: apparently the qemu monitor isn't too responsive > while it's waiting for a cold cd drive to spin up. > > The attached patch jacks up the timeout from 3 seconds to 10 seconds > when doing the initial monitor read. I verified that this fixes the issue. ACK, seems reasonable, although it'll block the caller for longer, this is best option with way we currently handle startup. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list