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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: VNC server for KVM VM
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:13:13 -0500
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Charles Duffy wrote:
> Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>> inet_listen: bind(ipv4,0.0.0.0,5903): Address already in use
>> inet_listen: FAILED
>
> If you check with netstat, I expect you'll see the port in TIME_WAIT 
> state; if so, this will eventually clean itself up if you just wait a 
> little bit before restarting.
>
> One option to avoid it is to make sure all connections are closed 
> properly on shutdown; another is to set the SO_REUSEADDR flag on the 
> socket before the bind() call.

We set SO_REUSEADDR.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori