Add watchdog timer configuration option
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When creating a fixed size disk, VirtualBox will often lock up the entire system for several seconds. When this happens phpVirtualBox's watchdog thinks that an error has occurred and requests a page refresh. This results in an orphaned VM that doesn't show up in the web UI and must be manually removed. I can recreate this on CentOS 6 and Fedora 20 on different machines.
An option to increase the watchdog timer would be a simple fix. I manually increased the timer in eventlistener.js and the issue was resolved. I would be willing to submit a patch for a configuration option if you approve of this approach.
I wish VirtualBox would just fix this. It should present a progress operation as disks are created. I'll add a config option to increase the watchdog timer. It will appear in the next version.