We handle this resource rather meticulously in shutdown/kill/wait/__exit__ et al, through the laborious mechanisms in _do_shutdown().
Quiet this pylint warning here. Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> --- python/qemu/machine.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/python/qemu/machine.py b/python/qemu/machine.py index 8f86303b48f..0df5b2f386f 100644 --- a/python/qemu/machine.py +++ b/python/qemu/machine.py @@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ def _launch(self) -> None: self._args) ) LOG.debug('VM launch command: %r', ' '.join(self._qemu_full_args)) + + # Cleaning up of this subprocess is guaranteed by _do_shutdown. + # pylint: disable=consider-using-with self._popen = subprocess.Popen(self._qemu_full_args, stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=self._qemu_log_file, -- 2.30.2