The console settings form lost its password, keymap and listen address
fields long ago (47009d4), but its scripts stayed: show_console(), which
nothing calls, change handlers for #console_passwd_gen, #console_passwd_clear
and #console_keymap_clear, and two blocks that preselected
#console_select_keymap and #console_select_listener_address. No template
defines any of these ids, so the code matched nothing. The instance list
drops a commented-out line that read #compute_select.
The CPU bar showed the average since the host booted, read for every
compute on every load of the VM list. The dialog now reads each compute's
graph endpoint (load over one second) when it opens, two computes at a
time so the reads hold at most two workers, and ignores answers of an
earlier opening. A host that cannot be read shows a dash. The since-boot
reading had no other caller and is removed.
The instance list showed every user an alert for each compute that was
not connected, with the compute's name and libvirt's error text. That
text names the host and how it is reached (for example "ssh: connect
to host 10.20.30.132 port 22: No route to host"), while the list hides
host names from users who are not administrators.
- Superusers and users with the global view_instances permission see
each unreachable host and its error, as before.
- Other users see one alert without host details, and only when a host
of their own VMs is down. It explains why those VMs show as unknown.
- The alerts' close button works (data-bs-dismiss was "modal").
Checked against the test setup with an unreachable compute that holds a
user's VM: the user sees the VM as unknown and the alert, but no host
name, address or error text; a superuser still sees them. The tests for
the user fail on the previous code.
libvirt has no timeout for opening a connection. Measured in the test
setup: an unreachable host blocked qemu+tcp for 135 s and qemu+ssh for
133 s; a daemon that accepts and never answers blocks forever. Gunicorn
runs sync workers and the instance list connects to every compute, so
one unreachable compute held a worker for minutes per page load.
- A connection is opened in a helper thread, at most one per
connection at a time. The request waits LIBVIRT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
(default 5 s). An open nobody waits for any more keeps running; until
it ends, requests get its error at once, and if it succeeds later the
connection is used. A failed open is not repeated for
LIBVIRT_RETRY_AFTER (default 30 s). A stuck host holds one thread and
does not keep other hosts from connecting.
- qemu+ssh runs ssh through vrtManager/libvirt-ssh (the URI's command
parameter), which adds ConnectTimeout=10 and BatchMode=yes, so an
abandoned ssh process ends and no prompt can hang. The user's ssh
configuration (aliases, ProxyJump, keys) still applies.
- The close callback acts only for the connection it was registered
for: a late callback of a replaced connection dropped its successor.
The reason is reported as text. A connection that closed before it
was published is an error.
- Compute.status is a bool (it returned the exception object, so the
"host is down" check in refresh_instance_database never fired); the
message is Compute.connection_error.
Unit tests cover the timeout, retry delay, late success, single open,
a stuck host next to a healthy one and the close callback. Live tests
(vrtManager/test_live_connection.py), for TCP and SSH computes of the
test setup: an unreachable address (no ssh left after 10 s), an endpoint
that never answers, a slow open completing later, a host that goes
silent on an established connection (keepalive ends calls within 45 s,
the next request reconnects), an ssh_config alias and a ProxyJump host.
