The setup creates 2 servers and then 3 snapshots from those 2 servers, and the JSON and XML test classes are running concurrently, so we could be creating multiple snapshots concurrently which is in theory overloading libvirt/qemu and causing the connection reset with libvirt.
@Ken'ichi, per comment 8, it's a pretty intensive setup:
http:// git.openstack. org/cgit/ openstack/ tempest/ tree/tempest/ api/compute/ images/ test_list_ image_filters. py#n29
The setup creates 2 servers and then 3 snapshots from those 2 servers, and the JSON and XML test classes are running concurrently, so we could be creating multiple snapshots concurrently which is in theory overloading libvirt/qemu and causing the connection reset with libvirt.