This **could** become a problem area if one of the vm processes hangs.  In later versions of Fedora/RHEL, this will cause the status command to hang as well.  However operations on other vm's will continue to function.  Then again, if a vm process hangs, that's also a problem we want to know about.  So I don't think there's an easy solution, and as-written, this will eventually cause the test to timeout and fail, so I think it's fine for now.