[libvirt] Failed to terminate process 1275 with SIGTERM: Device or resource busy

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:43:58PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I don't think it does. Passing GRACEFUL flag means libvirt will try
> /less/ hard to kill QEMU, so it is /more/ likely that you will get
> the
> 
>   "Failed to terminate process 1275 with SIGTERM: Device or resource busy"
> 
> In general, that error message is something to be expected from the
> virDomainDestroy() API, as we won't wait for death forever. If an
> app wishes to wait forever, they should either re-issue the destroy
> API call, or wait for an event notification of VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_STOPPED
> to arrive.

IIUC, we should trap this specific error, and then basically loop if
it happens?  Is there a good way to trap specific errors without
trying to match error message text?

Rich.

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