Bug 816279

Summary:	virt-manager can't connect to remote guest with a listen= address
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.4	CC:	dallan, dyasny, gkong, jwu, mzhan, rwu, syeghiay, yupzhang, zpeng
Target Milestone:	rc
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Doc Text:	Previously, virt-manager was not correctly using the graphics listen address attribute in the VM configuration, and would always try to connect to the guest with an SSH tunnel. This could break graphical console connections if listen= was set to an explicit interface address. virt-manager now properly connects to these addresses.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2012-06-20 12:39:46 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Cole Robinson 2012-04-25 17:12:43 UTC

virt-manager is trying to incorrectly connect to a VM with a non-localhost listen= address. This isn't that common but it is a regression from older versions (probably 6.0 or 6.1)

Upstream fixes:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=virt-manager.git;a=commit;h=422c0216d806f7c71e7197279c032b7f58a42db3
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=virt-manager.git;a=commit;h=3b17e049c9929a8879c00743874f2d7a9c98ac64

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2012-05-02 20:30:40 UTC

Fixed in virt-manager-0.9.0-13.el6

Comment 13 Daisy Wu 2012-05-14 05:54:07 UTC

According to the command 10 and 11, changed the status to VERIFIED.

Comment 14 Cole Robinson 2012-06-12 15:32:32 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, virt-manager was not correctly using the graphics listen address attribute in the VM configuration, and would always try to connect to the guest with an SSH tunnel. This could break graphical console connections if listen= was set to an explicit interface address. virt-manager now properly connects to these addresses.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 12:39:46 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0785.html