[virt-tools-list] VirtViewer and TCP Keepalives

[Marc-André Lureau]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> Hi
> 
> On a kind of related note, my colleague finds that around twice a day, his
> SPICE session to his Windows 7 guest locks as if "Windows Key"+L was
> pressed. He is using a Fedora 19 client.
> 
> Is there any debugging we can do to help track this down?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> CC
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Marc-André Lureau < mlureau at redhat.com >
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, I tried leaving a connection to guest with RHEL host, and I managed to
> caputre some debugging:
> 
> (remote-viewer:21306): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:913 main-1:0: Read error
> Error receiving data: Connection timed out
> 
> (remote-viewer:21306): GSpice-CRITICAL **: recv hdr: Connection timed out
> (remote-viewer:21306): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2136 got socket error:
> 25
> 
> then it closes remote-viewer
> 
> 
> Could you open a bug?
> 


Actually, I can't reproduce: I realized a few minutes later that my wifi card is really crappy, and hangs randomly (I couldn't even connect after that error). I have switch device, and left a client in idle for over 2 hours now, and there is no error so far.

> thanks
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi
> > 
> > The VMs are fine, in a running state. If you close the spice session (kill
> > the window) and then open it again, it works fine until it is left idle
> > again for about 15 minutes.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > CC
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Marc-André Lureau < mlureau at redhat.com >
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > The bulk of our users run Windows XP (32 bit) clients accessing either
> > > Win
> > > XP
> > > or Win 7 guests. Myself and the other sys admin run Fedora 18 and Fedora
> > > 19
> > > desktops respectively. We all experience the time out problem.
> > > 
> > > Between the client PCs (Windows and Fedora), we have a pair of firewall
> > > clusters of different brands. I am the primary administrator of the
> > > "inner"
> > > firewall cluster but have no visibility of the outer firewall cluster.
> > > 
> > > Basically we have:
> > > 
> > > Client PCs --- Outer FW cluster --- Inner FW cluster --- RHEV-M and
> > > RHEV-H
> > > (actually fat RHEL)
> > > 
> > > I have ensured that the FW cluster I maintain does not do timeouts on
> > > idle
> > > connections. I can ssh into a RHEL VM, and leave the SSH session idle for
> > > days without a disconnect. Once I get a SPICE session to a VM, if I don't
> > > use it for about 15 minutes or so, it either freezes completely (the
> > > SPICE
> > > session, not the VM) or disconnects with "unable to connect to the
> > > graphic
> > > server"
> > 
> > Have you checked the VM are not suspended or down? (virsh list --all)
> > thanks
> > 
> > 
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