qtest failures leave orphaned qemu processes hanging around If a qtest test case fails, it leaves orphaned qemu processes hanging around. On Fedora 18 with qemu.git as of today ( Feb 26 2013), the patch just forces a test failure ps axwww | grep qemu | grep -v grep $ make check-qtest-x86_64 CC tests/rtc-test.o LINK tests/rtc-test GTESTER check-qtest-x86_64 $ ps axwww | grep qemu | grep -v grep $ patch -p1 < force-test-failure.patch patching file tests/rtc-test.c $ make check-qtest-x86_64 CC tests/rtc-test.o LINK tests/rtc-test GTESTER check-qtest-x86_64 ** ERROR:tests/rtc-test.c:256:bcd_check_time: assertion failed: (0) GTester: last random seed: R02Sf2521dda395a2713128e0cbf86651a21 make: *** [check-qtest-x86_64] Error 1 $ ps axwww | grep qemu | grep -v grep 26258 pts/0 Sl 0:00 x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -qtest unix:/tmp/qtest-26256.sock,nowait -qtest-log /dev/null -qmp unix:/tmp/qtest-26256.qmp,nowait -pidfile /tmp/qtest-26256.pid -machine accel=qtest -display none -rtc clock=vm The problem is that an assertion failure in a test case causes the test program to exit(2) without hitting the qtest cleanup.