[virt-tools-list] VirtViewer and TCP Keepalives

[Marc-André Lureau]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all
> 
> I had a quick google and grepped through the v0.5.7 but don't see TCP
> keepalives being used.
> 
> We're running RHEV 3.2 in a couple of sites and find that if we have a SPICE
> session to a VM open but idle for for around 15 minutes, it disconnects.
> This is annoying our users.
> 
> Is there a way to stop these idle timeouts? Would implementing TCP keepalives
> be a solution?

Since spice-gtk v0.10, sockets are set with keepalive.

Are you testing with a Windows client or on RHEL?

Can you tell more about the client & networking setup?

thanks