[virt-tools-list] forgot "open virtual console" password

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Jun 27 17:14:52 UTC 2013


On 06/27/2013 08:06 AM, cwo at dainst.de wrote:
> Hi @all,
> 
> short description of our situation. We have taken over an old installation of
> a red hat server with a kwm-virtualization-environment. Thera are severals vm
> running without any problems. We have root-access to the kvm-host-system and
> the vm-systems. But:
> 
> We are using the virt-manager to control the vm (which works perfectly). We
> can not access the button "open virtual console" - it is protected with a
> password, which we dont have (it is gone with the fired administrator). Is
> there a solution, how we can reset this password or an other way to get this
> virtual console running?
> 

Do you mean like a spice/vnc password? It will show up in

sudo virsh dumpxml --security-info $vmname

But if the password is inside the guest it's outside the scope of this list.

- Cole




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