docs: Add a note about timeout bug.

[qemu-sanity-check.git] / qemu-sanity-check.pod.in

diff --git a/qemu-sanity-check.pod.in b/qemu-sanity-check.pod.in
index 836fb1f..da3f237 100644 (file)
--- a/qemu-sanity-check.pod.in
+++ b/qemu-sanity-check.pod.in
@@ -110,6 +110,16 @@ test that userspace has been reached.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 BUGS
+
+=head2 TIMEOUTS
+
+Timeouts don't currently work because of some oddness with the
+coreutils L<timeout(1)> program and qemu.  Instead you should run the
+whole script with a timeout, like this:
+
+ timeout 10m qemu-sanity-check
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<http://qemu.org>,