simonrey1
diff --git a/‎extensions/podman/packages/extension/src/extension.spec.ts‎
Lines changed: 8 additions & 4 deletions b/‎extensions/podman/packages/extension/src/extension.spec.ts‎
Lines changed: 8 additions & 4 deletions
diff --git a/‎extensions/podman/packages/extension/src/extension.ts‎
Lines changed: 2 additions & 0 deletions b/‎extensions/podman/packages/extension/src/extension.ts‎
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@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ beforeEach(() => {
 afterEach(async () => {
   console.error = originalConsoleError;
   await extension.deactivate();
+  vi.useRealTimers();
 });
 
 describe.each([
@@ -3300,16 +3301,19 @@ test('activate and autostart should not duplicate machines ', async () => {
   // call the autostart method
   const promiseAutoStart = autoStartMethod?.start();
 
-  // call 100 times monitorMachines
-  for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
-    extension.monitorMachines(provider, podmanConfiguration).catch(() => {});
-  }
+  vi.useFakeTimers();
+
+  const promises = Array.from({ length: 100 }).map(() => extension.monitorMachines(provider, podmanConfiguration));
 
   await promiseAutoStart;
 
   // should be only 1 but we allow some more calls (if there is not a check to check during the autostart it would be 100+ calls)
   expect(podmanMachineListCalls).toBeLessThan(5);
   expect(promiseAutoStart).toBeDefined();
+
+  await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(5000);
+
+  await Promise.allSettled(promises);
 });
 
 describe('macOS: tests for notifying if disguised podman socket fails / passes', () => {
 
@@ -1288,6 +1288,8 @@ async function exec(args: string[], options?: PodmanRunOptions): Promise<extensi
 }
 
 export async function activate(extensionContext: extensionApi.ExtensionContext): Promise<PodmanExtensionApi> {
+  stopLoop = false;
+
   initExtensionContext(extensionContext);
 
   initTelemetryLogger();
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1288,6 +1288,8 @@ async function exec(args: string[], options?: PodmanRunOptions): Promise<extensi`
`1288`	`1288`	`}`
`1289`	`1289`
`1290`	`1290`	`export async function activate(extensionContext: extensionApi.ExtensionContext): Promise<PodmanExtensionApi> {`
	`1291`	`+ stopLoop = false;`
	`1292`	`+`
`1291`	`1293`	`initExtensionContext(extensionContext);`
`1292`	`1294`
`1293`	`1295`	`initTelemetryLogger();`