From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>, pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-server v2] fix #7119: qm cleanup: wait for process exiting for up to 30 seconds
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:14:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ee8d206-36fd-4ade-893b-c7c2222a8883@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260210111612.2017883-1-d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Am 10.02.26 um 12:14 PM schrieb Dominik Csapak:
> When qmeventd detects a vm exiting, it starts 'qm cleanup' to cleanup
> files, executing hookscripts, etc.
>
> Since the vm process exits is sometimes not instant, wait up to 30
> seconds here to start the cleanup process instead of immediately
> aborting if the pid still exits. This prevented executing the hookscript
> on the 'post-stop' phase.
>
> This can be easily reproduced by e.g. passing through a usb device,
> which delays the qemu process exit for a few seconds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
> ---
> changes from v1:
> * use correct while condition (time() is always >= $starttime)
>
> original comment:
>
> The 30 second timeout was arbitrarily chosen, but we could probably
> start with something smaller, like 10 seconds? Could be adapted on
> applying though.
>
> In my (short) tests the usb passthrough part only adds a single second,
> but i can imagine different devices on other systems could block it for
> much longer.
>
> src/PVE/CLI/qm.pm | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/PVE/CLI/qm.pm b/src/PVE/CLI/qm.pm
> index bdae9641..16875ed2 100755
> --- a/src/PVE/CLI/qm.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/CLI/qm.pm
> @@ -1101,8 +1101,19 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
> 60,
> sub {
> my $conf = PVE::QemuConfig->load_config($vmid);
> +
> + # wait for some timeout until vm process exits, since this might not be instant
s/timeout/time/
Nit: s/vm/the QEMU/
Maybe add "after the QMP 'SHUTDOWN' event"?
> + my $timeout = 30;
> + my $starttime = time();
> my $pid = PVE::QemuServer::check_running($vmid);
> - die "vm still running\n" if $pid;
> + warn "vm still running - waiting up to $timeout seconds\n" if $pid;
While we're at it, we could improve the message here. Something like
'QEMU process $pid for VM $vmid still running (or newly started)'
Having the PID is nice info for developers/support engineers and the
case where a new instance is started before the cleanup was done is also
possible.
In fact, the case with the new instance is easily triggered by 'stop'
mode backups. Maybe we should fix that up first before adding a timeout
here?
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 qm[92975]: <root@pam> end task
UPID:pve9a1:00016B30:000CDF80:698F1485:qmshutdown:102:root@pam: OK
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 systemd[1]: Started 102.scope.
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 qmeventd[93079]: Starting cleanup for 102
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 qmeventd[93079]: trying to acquire lock...
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 vzdump[92895]: VM 102 started with PID 93116.
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 qmeventd[93079]: OK
Feb 13 13:09:48 pve9a1 qmeventd[93079]: vm still running
> +
> + while ($pid && (time() - $starttime) < $timeout) {
> + sleep(1);
> + $pid = PVE::QemuServer::check_running($vmid);
> + }
> +
> + die "vm still running - aborting cleanup\n" if $pid;
>
> # Rollback already does cleanup when preparing and afterwards temporarily drops the
> # lock on the configuration file to rollback the volumes. Deactivating volumes here
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-13 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-10 11:15 Dominik Csapak
2026-02-12 20:33 ` Benjamin McGuire
2026-02-13 11:40 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2026-02-13 12:14 ` Fiona Ebner [this message]
2026-02-13 12:20 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2026-02-13 13:16 ` Fiona Ebner
2026-02-16 8:42 ` Fabian Grünbichler
2026-02-16 9:15 ` Fiona Ebner
2026-02-19 10:15 ` Dominik Csapak
2026-02-19 13:27 ` Fiona Ebner
2026-02-20 9:36 ` Dominik Csapak
2026-02-20 14:30 ` Fiona Ebner
2026-02-20 14:51 ` Dominik Csapak
2026-02-13 12:22 ` Dominik Csapak
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