vnc-listen value ignored in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp

[Trev Peterson]

When configuring Xen host the vnc-listen value seems to be completely ignored. Whether I enter '0.0.0.0', 0.0.0.0 (no quotes as in the old conf files), or the specific ip of the interface '192.168.2.53' it only binds to the localhost IP 127.0.0.1.

PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5900 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3623/qemu-system-x8

[Trev Peterson (trev-advanced-reality)]

This should be against package xen-utils-common but I'm unable to select that.

[Trev Peterson (trev-advanced-reality)]

After several attempts at using apport-collect and failing, I'm just attaching the config file here manually. Let me know if I can provide any other info or config files necessary to troubleshoot.

FYI, the package names we can assign to this do not seem acceptable to apport-collect (in specific xen-common and xen are not shown as loaded on my system so I can not attach apport info to this bug as a result).

[Trev Peterson (trev-advanced-reality)]

root@cloud2:/etc/xen# netstat -nlp
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5900 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3623/qemu-system-x8

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I had no trouble with this under 14.04 but since upgrading to 16.04, the IP address part is ignored and it always uses 127.0.0.1, so I can not connect over the network. It does seem to respect the port part though.