Bug 818850

Summary: virt-viewer connect to the remote guest with address=0.0.0.0 need twice authorization.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Daisy Wu <jwu>
Component: virt-viewerAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 6.4CC: cfergeau, dblechte, dyasny, jwu, mzhan, rwu, tzheng, yupzhang, zpeng
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Description Daisy Wu 2012-05-04 08:05:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
virt-viewer connect to the remote guest with address=0.0.0.0 need twice authorization.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.2-6.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.10-16.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepared local host and remote host.
2. prepared a remote guest with address=0.0.0.0
    # virsh dumpxml T1
    ...
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
    </graphics>
    ...  
3. logon on local host, lauch virt-viewer to connect the remote guest.
   # virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://10.66.5.65/system T1
   root.5.65's password:
   root.5.65's password:

4. through twice authorization, virt-viewer display the remote guest.

Actual results
As above

Expected results
virt-viewer can display the remote guest with address=0.0.0.0 by only once authorization.
Comment 1 Daisy Wu 2012-05-04 08:06:23 UTC 
Created attachment 582049 [details]
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Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2012-05-04 09:06:46 UTC 
You need to authenticate once to connect to libvirt & once to connect to VNC since you requested SSH tunnelling.

If you want to avoid the SSH tunnelling for VNC, then pass the '--direct' flag.