[libvirt] PATCH: Support VNC password for QEMU guests

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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

Daniel
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