podman machine starting test

add a test to make sure machines are not running while still starting
in order to do this, I added a parameter to `run()` to delineate whether
or not the command should block or not. The non blocking run allows for tests
to get and use the `machineSession` pointer and check the exit code to see if it has finished.

also fix a bug (created by #13996) that before started, the machines would
always say "LastUp" and "Created" Less than one second ago

Signed-off-by: cdoern <cbdoer23@g.holycross.edu>

3 files changed, 41 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/machine/e2e/config.go b/pkg/machine/e2e/config.go
index 7d75ca6bc..c17b840d3 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/e2e/config.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/e2e/config.go
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ func (m *machineTestBuilder) setTimeout(timeout time.Duration) *machineTestBuild
 func (mb *machineTestBuilder) toQemuInspectInfo() ([]qemuMachineInspectInfo, int, error) {
 	args := []string{"machine", "inspect"}
 	args = append(args, mb.names...)
-	session, err := runWrapper(mb.podmanBinary, args, defaultTimeout)
+	session, err := runWrapper(mb.podmanBinary, args, defaultTimeout, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, -1, err
 	}
@@ -140,11 +140,15 @@ func (mb *machineTestBuilder) toQemuInspectInfo() ([]qemuMachineInspectInfo, int
 	return mii, session.ExitCode(), err
 }
 
+func (m *machineTestBuilder) runWithoutWait() (*machineSession, error) {
+	return runWrapper(m.podmanBinary, m.cmd, m.timeout, false)
+}
+
 func (m *machineTestBuilder) run() (*machineSession, error) {
-	return runWrapper(m.podmanBinary, m.cmd, m.timeout)
+	return runWrapper(m.podmanBinary, m.cmd, m.timeout, true)
 }
 
-func runWrapper(podmanBinary string, cmdArgs []string, timeout time.Duration) (*machineSession, error) {
+func runWrapper(podmanBinary string, cmdArgs []string, timeout time.Duration, wait bool) (*machineSession, error) {
 	if len(os.Getenv("DEBUG")) > 0 {
 		cmdArgs = append([]string{"--log-level=debug"}, cmdArgs...)
 	}
@@ -156,8 +160,10 @@ func runWrapper(podmanBinary string, cmdArgs []string, timeout time.Duration) (*
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	ms := machineSession{session}
-	ms.waitWithTimeout(timeout)
-	fmt.Println("output:", ms.outputToString())
+	if wait {
+		ms.waitWithTimeout(timeout)
+		fmt.Println("output:", ms.outputToString())
+	}
 	return &ms, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/machine/e2e/list_test.go b/pkg/machine/e2e/list_test.go
index e7a439945..0ce9063f9 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/e2e/list_test.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/e2e/list_test.go
@@ -70,6 +70,33 @@ var _ = Describe("podman machine list", func() {
 		Expect(util.StringInSlice(name1, listNames)).To(BeTrue())
 		Expect(util.StringInSlice(name2, listNames)).To(BeTrue())
 	})
+
+	It("list machine: check if running while starting", func() {
+		i := new(initMachine)
+		session, err := mb.setCmd(i.withImagePath(mb.imagePath)).run()
+		Expect(err).To(BeNil())
+		Expect(session).To(Exit(0))
+		s := new(startMachine)
+		startSession, err := mb.setCmd(s).runWithoutWait()
+		Expect(err).To(BeNil())
+		l := new(listMachine)
+		for { // needs to be infinite because we need to check if running when inspect returns to avoid race conditions.
+			listSession, err := mb.setCmd(l).run()
+			Expect(listSession).To(Exit(0))
+			Expect(err).To(BeNil())
+			if startSession.ExitCode() == -1 {
+				Expect(listSession.outputToString()).NotTo(ContainSubstring("Currently running"))
+			} else {
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		Expect(startSession).To(Exit(0))
+		listSession, err := mb.setCmd(l).run()
+		Expect(listSession).To(Exit(0))
+		Expect(err).To(BeNil())
+		Expect(listSession.outputToString()).To(ContainSubstring("Currently running"))
+		Expect(listSession.outputToString()).NotTo(ContainSubstring("Less than a second ago")) // check to make sure time created is accurate
+	})
 })
 
 func stripAsterisk(sl []string) {
diff --git a/pkg/machine/qemu/machine.go b/pkg/machine/qemu/machine.go
index 969acb760..78c621111 100644
--- a/pkg/machine/qemu/machine.go
+++ b/pkg/machine/qemu/machine.go
@@ -1065,11 +1065,11 @@ func getVMInfos() ([]*machine.ListResponse, error) {
 				return err
 			}
 
-			if !vm.LastUp.IsZero() {
+			if !vm.LastUp.IsZero() { // this means we have already written a time to the config
 				listEntry.LastUp = vm.LastUp
-			} else {
+			} else { // else we just created the machine AKA last up = created time
 				listEntry.LastUp = vm.Created
-				vm.Created = time.Now()
+				vm.LastUp = listEntry.LastUp
 				if err := vm.writeConfig(); err != nil {
 					return err
 				}