Liberty: vncserver_listen doesn't bind anymore in a dual-stack setup

[Thiago Martins]

Guys,

The vncserver_listen doesn't work anymore in a dual-stack setup, error:

2015-10-19 21:22:03.180 2737 ERROR nova.compute.manager [instance: 9fc58e29-41a0-44a8-aa31-1773d5cdea13] 2015-10-20T01:22:02.895921Z qemu-system-x86_64: -vnc [::]:0: Failed to start VNC server on `(null)': address resolution failed for [::]:5900: Name or service not known

Line in /etc/nova/nova.conf, group [vnc]:

---
vncserver_listen = ::
---

However, this very same line works on Kilo.

I'm running Liberty on Trusty, using Ubuntu Cloud Archive.

Thanks!
Thiago

[Markus Zoeller (markus_z) (mzoeller)]

@Thiago: This could be an issue in qemu itself [1]. Would you paste your exact versions of libvirt and qemu please? Could it be that this line worked in Kilo because that system used a different version of qemu? If I understand [1] correctly you can work around this issue by using the full IPv6 unspecified address "0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0".

@libvirt subteam:
I guess this bug cannot (shouldn't?) be solved in Nova? I leave it up to you.

[1] "Bug 1229073 - [graphical framebuffer]Start guest failed when VNC listen on IPV6 address ":
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229073

[Augustina Ragwitz (auggy)]

Still need versions of qemu and libvirt, marking as incomplete.

[Alex Barclay (9lex)]

Hey there. I've got exactly the same issue:

Log message:
2016-02-14T01:09:55.518748Z qemu-system-x86_64: -vnc [ipv6addr]:0: Failed to start VNC server on `(null)': address resolution failed for [ipv6addr]:5900: Temporary failure in name resolution

Ubuntu 15.10

ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu3 all PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu
ii qemu-block-extra:amd64 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils
ii qemu-slof 20140630+dfsg-1ubuntu1 all Slimline Open Firmware -- QEMU PowerPC version
ii qemu-system 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries
ii qemu-system-arm 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (arm)
ii qemu-system-common 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files)
ii qemu-system-mips 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (mips)
ii qemu-system-misc 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (miscelaneous)
ii qemu-system-ppc 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (ppc)
ii qemu-system-sparc 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (sparc)
ii qemu-system-x86 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
ii qemu-utils 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.2 amd64 QEMU utilities

and

ii libvirt-bin 1.2.16-2ubuntu11.15.10.3 amd64 programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt0 1.2.16-2ubuntu11.15.10.3 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii nova-compute-libvirt 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2 all OpenStack Compute - compute node libvirt support
ii python-libvirt 1.2.15-0ubuntu1 amd64 libvirt Python bindings

Hope this helps

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Automatically discovered version kilo in description. If this is incorrect, please update the description to include 'nova version: ...'