Re: [Xen-devel] ioemu: empty vnc passwd

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:35:55PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> > However, that means we can't use an empty passwd any more, while that
> > may be quite useful e.g. in testing environments, so that we would need
> > the following patch:
> 
> This is handled in XenD.
> 
>   - If a non-empty passwd is found in the guest config, or in the
>     global XenD config,, then qemu has  -vnc :1,passwd  on its CLI
>     to turn on password auth.
>   - If there is no guest password and no global XenD password,
>     then   qemu has  -vnc :1   and no password auth is enabled
>     at all.

I'm confused: if there's no config or xend password at all, then the
domain won't start:

            if vncpasswd is None:
                raise VmError('vncpasswd is not setup in vmconfig or '
                              'xend-config.sxp')

regards
john

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