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e5a1bee07 introduced a regression in Boxes: when Boxes is left idle
(it's still doing some libvirt calls in the background), the
libvirt connection gets closed after a few minutes. What happens is
that this code in virNetClientIOHandleOutput gets triggered:
if (!thecall)
return -1; /* Shouldn't happen, but you never know... */
and after the changes in e5a1bee07, this causes the libvirt connection
to be closed.
Upon further investigation, what happens is that
virNetClientIOHandleOutput is called from gvir_event_handle_dispatch
in libvirt-glib, which is triggered because the client fd became
writable. However, between the times gvir_event_handle_dispatch
is called, and the time the client lock is grabbed and
virNetClientIOHandleOutput is called, another thread runs and
completes the current call. 'thecall' is then NULL when the first
thread gets to run virNetClientIOHandleOutput.
After describing this situation on IRC, danpb suggested this:
11:37 < danpb> In that case I think the correct thing would be to change
'return -1' above to 'return 0' since that's not actually an
error - its a rare, but expected event
which is what this patch is doing. I've tested it against master
libvirt, and I didn't get disconnected in ~10 minutes while this
happens in less than 5 minutes without this patch.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>