[et-mgmt-tools] Re: [PATCH] use localhost when connecting local VNC guest console

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 07:05:43PM +0200, Bernhard Kaindl wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Bernhard Kaindl wrote:
> 
> >and if that is so (both are the hostname of the local machine) then
> >the VNC connection can be directed to 127.0.0.1 as before:
> >
> >--- virt-manager--devel/src/virtManager/domain.py
> >+++ virt-manager--devel/src/virtManager/domain.py
> >@@ -456,7 +456,12 @@ def get_graphics_console(self):
> >
> >        transport, username = self.connection.get_transport()
> >
> >-        return [type, self.connection.get_hostname(), port, transport]
> >+        hostname = self.connection.get_hostname()
> >+
> >+        if hostname == self.connection.get_local_hostname():
> >+            hostname = "127.0.0.1"
> >+
> >+        return [type, hostname, port, transport]
> >
> >
> >    def get_disk_devices(self):
> 
> Note: The message which was displayed when the gtk-vnc widget got the
> ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) error when connecting to <hostname>:5900
> sounds a bit misleading to me.
> 
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(5900), 
> sin_addr=inet_addr("<my host's LAN IP address here>")}, 16) = -1 
> ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
> 
> The message resulting from this was:
> 
> "Console was disconnected from guest"

Yes, I still need to get proper error reports being propagated out from
GTK-VNC back to the app. It'll addressed in next GTK-VNC i hope.

Dan.
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