From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwFc8-0001F4-QJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:02:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LwFc4-0001BK-PZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:02:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59486 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LwFc3-0001Aw-UJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:02:12 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-3.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:47905) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LwFc3-0006kb-9a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:02:11 -0400 Received: from sj-core-1.cisco.com (sj-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.177.237]) by sj-dkim-4.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n3LD1gJ0018683 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:01:42 -0700 Received: from xbh-sjc-231.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-231.cisco.com [128.107.191.100]) by sj-core-1.cisco.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n3LD1gqC004672 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:01:42 GMT Message-ID: <49EDC3B4.7030508@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:01:40 -0600 From: "David S. Ahern" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] resetting a stale VNC connection List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Is there a monitor command (or other method) to force a VNC client connection to close? It looks like the vnc code does not use keepalive probes. If the connection is left hanging the VNC server will never drop it. I have hit this condition a couple of times when a VPN connection drops while the vncviewer is connected to a VM. Specific software version at the moment is kvm-81. david