From: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-server] fix #7119: qm cleanup: wait for process exiting for up to 30 seconds
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:14:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <de089328-d86a-47e3-8c8a-8c9f0c5e72f1@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260210110450.1907589-1-d.csapak@proxmox.com>
eh sorry, i fudged the if condition
On 2/10/26 12:04 PM, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> 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>
> ---
>
> 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..c1d475a8 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
> + 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 $pid;
> +
> + while ($pid && $starttime - time() < $timeout) {
here, it should be time() - $starttime instead ^^, i'll send a v2
> + 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:[~2026-02-10 11:13 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-10 11:02 Dominik Csapak
2026-02-10 11:14 ` Dominik Csapak [this message]
2026-02-10 11:18 ` superseded: " Dominik Csapak
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