Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: VNC Password

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
>> <shameless plug>
>> You might want to check out http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/qemu-gtk/
>> then.  It can deal with "-vnc $host:$display,password" just fine.  Sets
>> a random password via monitor, then connects to the vnc server using the
>> password just set.  Password is never stored anywhere, it sets a new
>> random one each time you start the ui to see the screen of your VM.
>> </shameless plug>
> 
> That's not something I'd want to use while I'm trying to get rid of any
> kind of X dependencies.

qemu-gtk can handle that remotely too.  monitor must listen on tcp then
though, which you might not want to do for security reasons ...

Back to the original question: read password from file isn't implemented
as far I know.

cheers,
  Gerd