[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 08/12] kiosk: don't quit on disconnection

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 07:39:37AM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:05:12PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > We want to keep the app alive, in fullscreen, by all means, Even if
> > > the remote session ended for example. Ie, we want to prevent the app
> > > from quiting itself.
> > 
> > What is the "recovery" scenario for this then. Is it expected to
> > reconnect when the remote session starts again ?
> > 
> > Can this not just be handled by people using the '--reconnect' arg
> > if they want the app to stay around, rather than forcing all users
> > of kiosk mode to have this behaviour.
> 
> I agree with you that it would be eventually interesting to make 
> this optional, although it should be by default in kiosk mode. So
> perhaps a different argument --kiosk-quit-on-disconnect?

Or make it key/value, eg    --kiosk-quit POLICY where POLICY is one
of 'never', or 'on-disconnect', so people can be explicit ?

> --reconnect is only implemented in virt-viewer, we may want to use
> kiosk mode with remote-viewer too.

Oh, I hadn't noticed that.


> Btw, how does libvirt handle libvirt disconnections?

APIS will just return errors.

There is an async event notification you can listen for to find out
about disconnects though.

Daniel
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