Bug 1031207

Summary:	--reconnect option not useful if you are disconnected by another client
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma>
Component:	virt-viewer	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Description Jonathon Jongsma 2013-11-15 21:54:30 UTC

If you start virt-viewer with the --reconnect option, and then get disconnected because another client attached to the same guest, virt-viewer will switch to the black screen that says "Waiting for guest domain to re-start"

It stays that way forever, even though the guest domain did not actually shut down.  Virt-viewer won't attempt to re-connect until the guest actually does shut down and restart again.

It would be nice if virt-viewer could discriminate between a disconnect that was caused by the guest shutting down and those that are not.  In the latter case, it could offer a 'Click here to try to reconnect now' option.

Comment 1 Jonathon Jongsma 2013-11-15 21:56:06 UTC

come to think of it, it would be nice if this 'click here to reconnect' behavior was standard for all non-shutdown disconnections, even if the --reconnect option was not specified.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2019-03-21 15:13:44 UTC

Virt-viewer doesn't have the knowledge to implemented the requested behaviour. It has no way of knowing why it got disconnected from the server.