Re: QEMU

[Andrew Wood <andrewjameswood@ymail.com>]

On 30/10/15 09:36, Reco wrote:
> Specifing $SOME_IP instead of 0.0.0.0 should be possible, although I 
> have to admit that I've never tried it (127.0.0.1 does not count). But 
> 'refused to start' lacks some specific details: 1) What vnc stanza 
> have you use? 2) What's the list of IPs on the host that runs QEMU?

> VNC follows the simple rule: VNC port + 5900 = TCP port. So, you 
> should either use tcp port 11801, or specify 0.0.0.0:1. Reco 

Sorry for the delay in picking this up, I do a bit of experimenting with 
it as and when.

It works now it was because I was trying to specify the port literally 
rather than +1. Who thought of that? It seems rather strange. Does than 
mean you cant put it on a port below 5900?

Also is there any option in QEMU to require some sort of VNC 
authentication? I cant find anything online about it under QEMU  but I 
believe the VNC protocol does support authentication? Would it for 
example be possible to ask it to verify a users username & password 
against the standard Debian users file and even go one step further and 
allow or deny access to certain qemu guests based on the users group?