Remove spurious direct use of subprocess

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/nova/console/xvp.py b/nova/console/xvp.py
index 3cd287183..2d6842044 100644
--- a/nova/console/xvp.py
+++ b/nova/console/xvp.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import fcntl
 import os
 import signal
-import subprocess
 
 from Cheetah import Template
 
diff --git a/nova/utils.py b/nova/utils.py
index 1e2dbebb1..3a2049464 100644
--- a/nova/utils.py
+++ b/nova/utils.py
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ def execute(*cmd, **kwargs):
     :delay_on_retry     True | False. Defaults to True. If set to True, wait a
                         short amount of time before retrying.
     :attempts           How many times to retry cmd.
+    :shell              True | False. Defaults to False. If set to True,
+                        Popen command is called shell=True.
 
     :raises exception.Error on receiving unknown arguments
     :raises exception.ProcessExecutionError
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ def execute(*cmd, **kwargs):
     check_exit_code = kwargs.pop('check_exit_code', 0)
     delay_on_retry = kwargs.pop('delay_on_retry', True)
     attempts = kwargs.pop('attempts', 1)
+    shell = kwargs.pop('shell', False)
     if len(kwargs):
         raise exception.Error(_('Got unknown keyword args '
                                 'to utils.execute: %r') % kwargs)
@@ -164,6 +167,7 @@ def execute(*cmd, **kwargs):
                                    stdin=_PIPE,
                                    stdout=_PIPE,
                                    stderr=_PIPE,
+                                   shell=shell,
                                    env=env)
             result = None
             if process_input is not None:
diff --git a/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py b/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py
index 0b93a8399..ec202a4ef 100644
--- a/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py
+++ b/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ import os
 import random
 import re
 import shutil
-import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import time
@@ -684,7 +683,7 @@ class LibvirtConnection(driver.ComputeDriver):
         cmd = '%s/tools/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py --command "%s" -t %s -p %s' \
               % (utils.novadir(), ajaxterm_cmd, token, port)
 
-        subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True)
+        utils.execute(cmd, shell=True)
         return {'token': token, 'host': host, 'port': port}
 
     def get_host_ip_addr(self):