Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] QMP: Introduce commands doc

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:55:24AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 16:48:13 +0300
> Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > +change
> > > +------
> > > +
> > > +Change a removable medium or VNC configuration.
> > >    
> > 
> > This is sad.  Would anyone write a C function with a similar description?
> 
>  I wouldn't, but someone did for qemu.
> 
> > Do we have this in 0.12?  If not we can change (...) it.  If we do, it's 
> > a more difficult deprecation process.
> 
>  Yes, we do and it's used by libvirt iirc.

This command has been in QEMU for quite a long time now (0.9.x IIRC).

IIRC, Gerd's SPICE proposal should include a brand new QMP command for
setting both VNC and SPICE authentication information, since it has
more than just a single password arg. At that point this use of change
for VNC could be deprecated

Regards,
Daniel
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