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[David Kranz <david.kranz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To help with the effort of making the Tempest suite run faster, we 
should avoid or skip the use of soft reboot in any tests, at least for 
now. The problem is that, according to Vish, soft reboot requires guest 
support. If the booted image doesn't have it, compute will wait (two 
minutes by default), and do a hard reboot. So right now almost all tests 
that do a soft reboot will take at least 150 seconds or so and will not 
actually be testing anything useful. There should be a soft reboot test 
that uses an image with guest support.

 -David

References:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1013747
https://bugs.launchpad.net/tempest/+bug/1014647