[libvirt] PATCH: Support VNC password for QEMU guests

[Jim Meyering]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:46:34PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:08:56PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> >> This patch adds support for using the monitor interface to set the VNC
>> >> password
>> >>
>> >>   (qemu) change vnc password
>> >>   Password: ********
>> >>
>> >> A minor tricky thing is that we can't just send the command and password
>> >> all in one go, we must wait for the 'Password' prompt before sending the
>> >> password.
>> >>
>> >> When doing this I noticed that virsh dumpxml has no way to request a
>> >> secure XML dump (required to see the password element), nor did the
>> >> virsh edit command set the SECURE or INACTIVE flags when changing
>> >> the XML.
>> >>
>> >>  qemu_conf.c   |   45 ++++++++++++-----------
>> >>  qemu_driver.c |  112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>> >>  virsh.c       |   30 ++++++++++-----
>> >>  3 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
>> ...
>> > +    int flags = 0;
>> > +    int inactive = vshCommandOptBool(cmd, "inactive");
>> > +    int secure = vshCommandOptBool(cmd, "secure");
>> > +
>> > +    if (inactive)
>> > +        flags |= VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE;
>> > +    if(secure)
>> > +        flags |= VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE;
>>
>> ACK.
>> My only reservation is that this new --secure option currently means
>> "also dump sensitive info" (passwords), which is sometimes
>> _in_secure. So how about naming it --all instead?
>
> How about  --security-info  ?   I think --all is probably a little too
> generic a term

Sounds good.