[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#693601: Bug#693601: virt-viewer cannot connect to graphical console using qemu+ssh protocol

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:19:40PM +0100, Cesar Enrique Garcia wrote:
> Package: virt-viewer
           ^^^^^^^^^^^ - you refer to virt-manager below. Where are you
seeing the bug? If virt-manager: which version? Older versions had
problems using zsh.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> Version: 0.2.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
>  I am connecting virt-manager to a host using qemu+ssh protocol. The connection is called qemu+ssh://user@host/system. 
> This works fine and four virtual machines are shown. However, when I double-click on any of the virtual machines 
> I get the following error:
> 
>  Error: VNC connection to hypervisor host got refused or disconnected!
>  Error: zsh:1: command not found: nc -q 0 127.0.0.1 5904
> 
>  I have checked that the nc command actually exists (also in the host).
>  zsh is my shell both in the local and remote machine. 
>  I have used the same procedure from Mint 13 and Fedora 17 and it can connect to the same host without any problem. 
>  I can access the configuration of the virtual machine clicking on the info button, so it seems it is a problem 
>  only showing the VNC virtual console.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.6
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=es_ES.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages virt-viewer depends on:
> ii  libc6              2.11.3-4              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libglade2-0        1:2.6.4-1             library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.2-1              The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgtk-vnc-1.0-0   0.4.1-4               A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (runt
> ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> ii  libvirt0           0.8.3-5+squeeze2      library for interfacing with diffe
> ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze5 GNOME XML library
> 
> virt-viewer recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages virt-viewer suggests:
> ii  netcat                        1.10-38    TCP/IP swiss army knife -- transit
> ii  netcat-openbsd [netcat]       1.89-4     TCP/IP swiss army knife
> ii  netcat-traditional [netcat]   1.10-38    TCP/IP swiss army knife
> 
> -- no debconf information


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