[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer] Don't connect to localhost when using --direct

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Apr 3 12:48:10 UTC 2014


Trying to connect to a remote virtual machine using
virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://example.com/system --direct $vm_name
will currently fail with an error message saying it's not possible to
localhost. This happens with VMs which listen on a wildcard address (eg
'0.0.0.0').
This was introduced by commit 74b1b62 which changes the host to connect to
to 'localhost' when trying to connect through ssh to a VM listening on a
wildcard address. This is only valid when using a ssh tunnel, and should
not be done with --direct. The fallback code which uses the hostname from
the libvirt URI is what makes the most sense in this situation (wildcard
listen address + --direct).
This commit introduces a virt_viewer_app_get_direct() so that this can be
implemented.

Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079211
---
 src/virt-viewer-app.c | 7 +++++++
 src/virt-viewer-app.h | 1 +
 src/virt-viewer.c     | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/virt-viewer-app.c b/src/virt-viewer-app.c
index 718c124..92ecc64 100644
--- a/src/virt-viewer-app.c
+++ b/src/virt-viewer-app.c
@@ -1841,6 +1841,13 @@ virt_viewer_app_set_direct(VirtViewerApp *self, gboolean direct)
     self->priv->direct = direct;
 }
 
+gboolean virt_viewer_app_get_direct(VirtViewerApp *self)
+{
+    g_return_val_if_fail(VIRT_VIEWER_IS_APP(self), FALSE);
+
+    return self->priv->direct;
+}
+
 void
 virt_viewer_app_clear_hotkeys(VirtViewerApp *self)
 {
diff --git a/src/virt-viewer-app.h b/src/virt-viewer-app.h
index 5058281..6a53992 100644
--- a/src/virt-viewer-app.h
+++ b/src/virt-viewer-app.h
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ gboolean virt_viewer_app_activate(VirtViewerApp *self, GError **error);
 gboolean virt_viewer_app_initial_connect(VirtViewerApp *self, GError **error);
 void virt_viewer_app_start_reconnect_poll(VirtViewerApp *self);
 void virt_viewer_app_set_zoom_level(VirtViewerApp *self, gint zoom_level);
+gboolean virt_viewer_app_get_direct(VirtViewerApp *self);
 void virt_viewer_app_set_direct(VirtViewerApp *self, gboolean direct);
 void virt_viewer_app_set_hotkeys(VirtViewerApp *self, const gchar *hotkeys);
 void virt_viewer_app_set_attach(VirtViewerApp *self, gboolean attach);
diff --git a/src/virt-viewer.c b/src/virt-viewer.c
index 679075a..6ff3f86 100644
--- a/src/virt-viewer.c
+++ b/src/virt-viewer.c
@@ -365,7 +365,8 @@ virt_viewer_extract_connect_info(VirtViewer *self,
      */
     if (virt_viewer_replace_host(ghost)) {
         gchar *replacement_host = NULL;
-        if (g_strcmp0(transport, "ssh") == 0) {
+        if ((g_strcmp0(transport, "ssh") == 0)
+                && !virt_viewer_app_get_direct(app)) {
             replacement_host = g_strdup("localhost");
         } else {
             replacement_host = g_strdup(host);
-- 
1.9.0




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