On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:27:49AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange (berrange@redhat.com) wrote:

The virt-manager console is basically just a plain old boring VNC client.
It uses GTK-VNC to establish its VNC network connection, and that doesn't
do anything unusual AFAIK. We use getaddrinfo() to resolve the hostname,
and then try each of its results in turn, until we succesfully connect
to the VNC server. We don't explicitly bind() to the client port, just
let the kernel pick it for us. The code in question, is the "gvnc_open_host"
method from gvnc.c,  which starts at about line 2910

http://freehg.org/u/aliguori/gtk-vnc.hg/file/d68935d582f0/src/gvnc.c

So it is not explicit bind call, but port autoselection in the
connect(). Can you check what errno is returned?
Did I understand it right, that connect fails, you try different
address, but then suddenly all those sockets become 'alive'?

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	Evgeniy Polyakov