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