On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:10:51PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Just a heads-up for anyone who uses the VNC service for accessing the > graphical framebuffer for fully-virt & para-virt guests. As of xen-3.0.2-43 I do of course actually mean 'xen-3.0.2-42' * Sep 29 2006 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> - 3.0.2-42 - Added vnclisten patches to make VNC only listen on localhost out of the box, configurable by 'vnclisten' parameter (bz 203196) > in rawhide, the VNC server will default to only accepting connections on > localhost (127.0.0.1). The reason for this change is that the VNC servers > do not currently[1] have any support for VNC password authentication, so > listening on 0.0.0.0 by default is rather a bad idea. > > If you need to revert to old behaviour either set vnclisten="0.0.0.0" in > the guest domain's config, or to change it system wide, set the vnc-listen > parameter in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp. I'd recommend though to just forward > the VNC port securely over SSH instead if feasible. > > Regards, > Dan. > > [1] Password support is under active development & will hopefully also > appear real soon now... Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
