[lug] Restart failure binding to/listening on recently used port

[David Ahern]

Run qemu through strace. e.g.,

strace -e trace=setsockopt  qemu-kvm -vnc :1 ....

For me I see:

setsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0

where fd=11 is the VNC socket.

David


On 10/12/2009 11:53 AM, Chris Riddoch wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:43 PM, David Ahern <dsahern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have been using kvm's version of qemu for a couple of years now, and I
>> am fairly certain it sets the option. If you have the code (the path is
>> the same for kvm's qemu git or qemu's git), the path is:
> 
> Perhaps it does, though the behavior I'm seeing would suggest it
> doesn't.  I'm using OpenSuSE 11.1's stock non-kvm qemu package, which
> is at version 0.10.1, plus whatever security updates they've given me.
>  I've just downloaded and built qemu and kvm-qemu 0.11.0 to try
> them...
> 
>> Also, I have restarted VM's very quickly back-to-back (with VNC and
>> other display options) and never hit this.
>>
>> Maybe you are hitting another problem.
> 
> It's possible... I'm not sure what that would be, though.  I'll post
> again when I figure it out...
>