Failure to check for qemu failure at startup about avatar2 HOT 2 OPEN

As far as I can tell, this is only marginally related to #66 or #105. The same error message occurs regardless of which of a number of different reasons the configuration failed. The problem noted here is fundamentally that the error message doesn't tell you what actually went wrong, if the problem was QEMU failing to start.

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Hello, thanks for your interest avatar2 :)

The error message is not very clear in the sense that it does not invite to check the stdout/stderr of QEMU. These files are located in the avatar output_directory. By default, the redirections are files QemuTarget0_out.txt & QemuTarget0_err.txt under the folder /tmp/<something>_avatar/

Otherwise, I'm not a big fan of using timeout for synchronization: they tend to show different behaviors on different machines as it is mentioned in #105 (comment)

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