[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 1/2] fix #3502: VM start timeout config parameter

[Daniel Tschlatscher]

It was already possible to set the timeout parameter for the VM config
via the API. However, the value was not considered when the function
config_aware_timeout() was called.
Now, if the timeout parameter is set, it will override the heuristic
calculation of the VM start timeout.

During testing I found a problem where really big values (10^20)+
would be converted to scientific notation, which means they no longer
pass the integer type check. To get around this, I set the maximum
value for the timeout to 2,680,000 seconds, which is around 31 days.
This I'd wager, is an upper limit in which nobody should realistically
run into.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Tschlatscher <d.tschlatscher at proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/API2/Qemu.pm          | 1 +
 PVE/QemuServer.pm         | 7 +++++++
 PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
index a824657..d0a4eaa 100644
--- a/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
+++ b/PVE/API2/Qemu.pm
@@ -2494,6 +2494,7 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
 		description => "Wait maximal timeout seconds.",
 		type => 'integer',
 		minimum => 0,
+		maximum => 2680000,
 		default => 'max(30, vm memory in GiB)',
 		optional => 1,
 	    },
diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index e9aa248..81a7f6d 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -713,6 +713,13 @@ EODESCR
 	description => "Some (read-only) meta-information about this guest.",
 	optional => 1,
     },
+    timeout => {
+	optional => 1,
+	type => 'integer',
+	description => 'The maximum timeout to wait for a VM to start',
+	minimum => 0,
+	maximum => 2680000,
+    }
 };
 
 my $cicustom_fmt = {
diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm b/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm
index c10d842..c26d0dc 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer/Helpers.pm
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ sub version_cmp {
 
 sub config_aware_timeout {
     my ($config, $is_suspended) = @_;
+
+    return $config->{timeout} if defined($config->{timeout});
+
     my $memory = $config->{memory};
     my $timeout = 30;
 
-- 
2.30.2