On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Dave Allan wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:09:55AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/22/2012 09:00 AM, Dave Allan wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:10:03PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
The defines QEMU_VNC_PORT_MIN and QEMU_VNC_PORT_MAX were used to find free port when starting domains. As this was hardcoded to the same ports as default VNC servers, there were races with these other programs. This patch includes the possibility to change the default starting port as well as the maximum port in qemu config file.
Hi Martin,
Two design comments:
1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782814 requests that the default port be changed to avoid conflicts, which seems reasonable to me.
If we choose better defaults for new installations, we still need to worry about preserving existing ranges when upgrading old installations. This may need some coordination with the spec file doing some %post magic to add in vnc_port_min with a value other than 5900 to qemu.conf on new installations, but leaving it unspecified when doing an upgrade.
That's a good point, we certainly don't want to break things on upgrade. At least one case that would is where people have opened the old range in a firewall, and now instead of ports, say, 5900-n, now people will be getting some other range.
2) I agree with the config option since most applications on the system will want the system defaults. However, IMO in this case an application writer should be given the option in the XML to override the system default.
Agreed - I think we need both solutions - qemu.conf to specify the default range, and per-domain XML to specify an override (does the XML need to specify a range, or just a single port?).
I think a range, like the config option.
I think this is unneccessary configurability. A qemu config option is sufficient. I just don't see any application wanting to set different default ranges per guest. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|