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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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On 05/13/2010 06:01 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>
>>   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).
>    

It wasn't in QMP until 0.12.  We shouldn't have put it there in that form.

> 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
>    

Yes.  Yet management tools who want to support 0.12 will need to support 
the awkward multiplexor as well.

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