From 44631ace40ea0335a0da669a0f0651a171a46a5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "danms@us.ibm.com" <danms@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:07:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reduce the time required to start xm-test domains by allowing
 the console to retry connecting to the DomU multiple times.  A polling
 approach instead of a wait-and-hope-it-works approach.

---
 tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/Console.py   | 33 ++++++++++++++++--------
 tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/XenDomain.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/Console.py b/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/Console.py
index 0e34bcf5c8..3c5691dc96 100755
--- a/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/Console.py
+++ b/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/Console.py
@@ -62,26 +62,37 @@ class XmConsole:
         self.historySaveCmds  = historySaveCmds
         self.debugMe          = False
         self.limit            = None
+        self.delay            = 2
 
         consoleCmd = ["/usr/sbin/xm", "xm", "console", domain]
 
-        if verbose:
-            print "Console executing: " + str(consoleCmd)
+        start = time.time()
+
+        while (time.time() - start) < self.TIMEOUT:
+            if verbose:
+                print "Console executing: %s" % str(consoleCmd)
 
-        pid, fd = pty.fork()
+            pid, fd = pty.fork()
 
-        if pid == 0:
-            os.execvp("/usr/sbin/xm", consoleCmd[1:])
+            if pid == 0:
+                os.execvp("/usr/sbin/xm", consoleCmd[1:])
 
-        self.consolePid = pid
-        self.consoleFd  = fd
+            self.consolePid = pid
+            self.consoleFd  = fd
 
-        tty.setraw(self.consoleFd, termios.TCSANOW)
+            tty.setraw(self.consoleFd, termios.TCSANOW)
             
-        bytes = self.__chewall(self.consoleFd)
-        if bytes < 0:
-            raise ConsoleError("Console didn't respond")
+            bytes = self.__chewall(self.consoleFd)
+
+            if bytes > 0:
+                return
 
+            if verbose:
+                print "Console didn't attach, waiting %i sec..." % self.delay
+            time.sleep(self.delay)
+
+        raise ConsoleError("Console didn't respond after %i secs" % self.TIMEOUT)
+    
     def __addToHistory(self, line):
         self.historyBuffer.append(line)
         self.historyLines += 1
diff --git a/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/XenDomain.py b/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/XenDomain.py
index 6a8145ee84..7bacf2b683 100644
--- a/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/XenDomain.py
+++ b/tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/XenDomain.py
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ class XmTestDomain(XenDomain):
 #            status, output = traceCommand("xm list")
 
         XenDomain.start(self)
-        waitForBoot()
+#        waitForBoot()
 
     def startNow(self):
         XenDomain.start(self)
-- 
2.30.2