diff --git a/tools/testClient/cloudstackConnection.py b/tools/testClient/cloudstackConnection.py
index 9b2aa155658..4dc90434de7 100644
--- a/tools/testClient/cloudstackConnection.py
+++ b/tools/testClient/cloudstackConnection.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class cloudConnection(object):
         self.apiKey = apiKey
         self.securityKey = securityKey
         self.mgtSvr = mgtSvr
-        self.connection = httplib.HTTPConnection("%s:%d"%(mgtSvr,port))
+        self.connection = httplib.HTTPConnection("%s:%d"%(mgtSvr,port), timeout=180)
         self.port = port
         self.logging = logging
         if port == 8096:
@@ -139,4 +139,4 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deployVirtualMachineResponse><virtualmachine><id>407</id><name>i-1-407-RS3</name><displayname>i-1-407-RS3</displayname><account>system</account><domainid>1</domainid><domain>ROOT</domain><created>2011-07-30T14:45:19-0700</created><state>Running</state><haenable>false</haenable><zoneid>1</zoneid><zonename>CA1</zonename><hostid>3</hostid><hostname>kvm-50-205</hostname><templateid>4</templateid><templatename>CentOS 5.5(64-bit) no GUI (KVM)</templatename><templatedisplaytext>CentOS 5.5(64-bit) no GUI (KVM)</templatedisplaytext><passwordenabled>false</passwordenabled><serviceofferingid>1</serviceofferingid><serviceofferingname>Small Instance</serviceofferingname><cpunumber>1</cpunumber><cpuspeed>500</cpuspeed><memory>512</memory><guestosid>112</guestosid><rootdeviceid>0</rootdeviceid><rootdevicetype>NetworkFilesystem</rootdevicetype><nic><id>380</id><networkid>203</networkid><netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask><gateway>65.19.181.1</gateway><ipaddress>65.19.181.110</ipaddress><isolationuri>vlan://65</isolationuri><broadcasturi>vlan://65</broadcasturi><traffictype>Guest</traffictype><type>Direct</type><isdefault>true</isdefault><macaddress>06:52:da:00:00:08</macaddress></nic><hypervisor>KVM</hypervisor></virtualmachine></deployVirtualMachineResponse>'
     conn = cloudConnection(None)
     
-    print conn.paraseReturnXML(xml, deployVirtualMachine.deployVirtualMachineResponse())
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+    print conn.paraseReturnXML(xml, deployVirtualMachine.deployVirtualMachineResponse())