On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:42:20PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:14:43PM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 08:11:07PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:56:19AM -0500, Dave Allan wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble with virt-viewer not connecting to a VM on a remote > > > > host over SSH. It connects, briefly gives me a black VM display, and > > > > then says that the remote disconnected. I've noticed a few paches on > > > > > > That was basically what I was seeing IIRC. I've roled my patches into > > > the Debian package: > > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/virt-viewer > > > > > > (in case you have a vm around to test). I didn't get around to dig > > > deeper into Christophe comments due to a lack of free time yet though. > > > Cheers, > > > -- Guido > > > > I made some progress understanding what's happening, at least on my > > system. Bisecting shows commit > > 56b0217c626349748c5cc6f2fbccfa6a905f75a4 to be the point at which > > virt-viewer stops connecting to my VM. After looking at that commit, > > I was able to get virt-viewer to connect by adding listen='localhost' > > to my VM's graphics element. I'm afraid I haven't had time today to > > dig into exactly what the effect of that patch is so I can't propose > > an alternative. > > I think I see what's happening: > > In the default qemu.conf VNC is configured to listen on 127.0.0.1. > When virt-viewer finds no listen address in the domain xml it > substitutes the hostname from the connect URI and tries to use nc to > connect to it, but in the default configuration the guest isn't > listening on that IP, it's only listening on 127.0.0.1 so the > connection fails. Either specifying a listen address or changing > qemu.conf to allow the guest to listen on 0.0.0.0 will allow > connections to succeed. > > The problem is tricky since I don't see how the client can determine, > in the absence of a listen tag in the graphics element, what IP the > guest is actually listening on. However, the default qemu.conf > specifies localhost, so it seems to me that the behavior prior to the > change in 56b0217 was more likely to be correct as it matches the > server default. > > At this point, I favor reverting 56b0217, but I'm curious to see > what other people think. You're only considering the case where virt-viewer is using SSH and thus local to the VM. In the non-SSH case, virt-viewer is connecting to a remote host IP directly and thus 'localhost' is absolutely wrong. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
