[libvirt-users] vnc port/listen address ignored when setting machine?

[Ján Tomko]

On 01/16/2014 04:51 PM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> Hi,
> First of all, I hope it's not a big problem - I'm running on Debian, not
> Redhat.
> 
> To my problem: I'm starting to learn virtualization, libvirt, and
> decided to create some test machine. I did it with:
> virt-install --name debian-test \
>     --os-type=linux \
>     --os-variant=debianwheezy \
>     --cdrom /media/media/software/iso/debian-testing-amd64-netinst-2014-01-16.iso \
>     --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0,port=20001 \
>     --disk pool=default,format=raw,size=20 \
>     --ram 2048 \
>     --vcpus=2 \
>     --network bridge=virbr0 \
>     --hvm \
>     --virt-type=kvm
> 
> Machine starts, but domdisplay shows:
> =# virsh domdisplay debian-test
> vnc://localhost:14101
> 
> When I tried setting it with --grpahics=vnc,...port=40001, I got it to listen
> on port 34101 (which is weird anyway, but at least I can change it).

Libvirt's XML and virt-install expect the TCP port, virsh domdisplay shows the
VNC port, which is the TCP port minus 5900.

For graphics listening on the wildcard address, domdisplay always shows
'localhost'.

> 
> But whatever I do - I can't make it to listen on 0.0.0.0.

What is the address reported by 'netstat -tnp'?

Jan

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