default of vnc_port range start seems not to be 5900, but 9100

[Jaroslav Henner]

Description of problem:
In the nova conf, there is:

# VNC starting port (integer value)
#vnc_port=5900

Which means the default value is 5900, but it is not so. with this configuration, vmware VMs seems to have ports >=9100

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openstack-nova-compute-2013.2.2-2.el6ost.noarch

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make sure the vnc_port under vmware is unset
2. restart nova-compute
3. boot the VM
4. On the ESXi:

~ # grep vnc /vmfs/volumes/shared/1f9f6326-18bd-4972-8a59-5c268dc28b53/*.vmx
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "true"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "9129"

5. openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf vmware vnc_port 5900
6. restart, boot, check:

~ # grep vnc /vmfs/volumes/shared/xxxx-yyy-.../*.vmx
RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "true"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "59xx"

Actual results:
default is something else then it was meant to be

Expected results:
default is what is meant to be

Additional info:

[Jaroslav Henner (jhenner)]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077855

[Tracy Jones (tjones-i)]

that is ok - when the VM is created, the vnc port is reset via a reconfig vm call

[Gary Kotton (garyk)]

Hi,
The reason that you are seeing this is due to https://launchpad.net/bugs/1255609 (please see https://review.openstack.org/#/c/76722/ - that resolves the issue).
Thanks
Gary