Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] VNC-related HMP/QMP fixes

[Markus Armbruster]

Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com> writes:

> Since the removal of the generic 'qmp_change' command, one can no longer 
> replace
> the 'default' VNC display listen address at runtime (AFAIK). For our users who
> need to set up a secondary VNC access port, this means configuring a second 
> VNC
> display (in addition to our standard one for web-access), but it turns out one
> cannot set a password on this second display at the moment, as the
> 'set_password' call only operates on the 'default' display.
>
> Additionally, using secret objects, the password is only read once at startup.
> This could be considered a bug too, but is not touched in this series and left
> for a later date.

Related: Vladimir recently posted a patch to add a new command for
changing VNC server listening addresses.  Daniel asked him to work it
into display-reload instead[1].  Vladimir complied[2].

Daniel, what do you think about this one?  Should it also use
display-reload?


[1] Message-ID: <YdRJ06CS4qoDJI/F@redhat.com>
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-01/msg00292.html

[2] Message-ID: <20220118160909.2502374-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-01/msg03864.html