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

[cwo at dainst.de]

Am 27.06.2013 19:14, schrieb Cole Robinson:
> 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
Perfect, it works. Thanks.

Chris