Test booting repeatedly to track down qemu boot hangs.

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+#!/bin/sh -
+# libguestfs
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+# Some versions of qemu can be flakey and can hang occasionally
+# during boot (particularly KVM if the BIOS is the qemu version
+# which doesn't have the required KVM patches).  Test repeatedly
+# booting.
+
+dd if=/dev/zero of=test1.img bs=1024k count=500
+
+n=20
+
+export LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1
+
+for i in $(seq 1 $n); do
+  echo Test boot $i of $n ...
+  ./fish/guestfish -a test1.img run
+done
+
+rm test1.img