The -vnc argument is documented as accepting two syntaxes for the 'websocket' option, either a bare option name, or a port number. If using the bare option name, it is supposed to apply the display number as an offset to base port 5700. e.g.
-vnc localhost:3,websocket should listen on port 5703, however, this was broken in 2.3.0 since commit 4db14629c38611061fc19ec6927405923de84f08 Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> Date: Tue Sep 16 12:33:03 2014 +0200 vnc: switch to QemuOpts, allow multiple servers instead qemu tries to listen on port "on" which gets looked up in /etc/services and fails. Fixes bug: #1455912 Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> --- ui/vnc.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ui/vnc.c b/ui/vnc.c index 29aa9c4..c82e476 100644 --- a/ui/vnc.c +++ b/ui/vnc.c @@ -3586,7 +3586,13 @@ void vnc_display_open(const char *id, Error **errp) wsaddr->type = SOCKET_ADDRESS_KIND_INET; inet = wsaddr->u.inet.data = g_new0(InetSocketAddress, 1); inet->host = g_strdup(saddr->u.inet.data->host); - inet->port = g_strdup(websocket); + if (g_str_equal(websocket, "") || + g_str_equal(websocket, "on")) { + inet->port = g_strdup_printf( + "%d", (int)baseport + 5700); + } else { + inet->port = g_strdup(websocket); + } if (to) { inet->has_to = true; -- 2.9.3