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diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 0af0ff45c2..f32e9e2fb9 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ to ease cross-compilation and cross-debugging. @end itemize -QEMU can run without an host kernel driver and yet gives acceptable +QEMU can run without a host kernel driver and yet gives acceptable performance. For system emulation, the following hardware targets are supported: @@ -1124,9 +1124,11 @@ the protocol limits passwords to 8 characters it should not be considered to provide high security. The password can be fairly easily brute-forced by a client making repeat connections. For this reason, a VNC server using password authentication should be restricted to only listen on the loopback interface -or UNIX domain sockets. Password authentication is requested with the @code{password} -option, and then once QEMU is running the password is set with the monitor. Until -the monitor is used to set the password all clients will be rejected. +or UNIX domain sockets. Password authentication is not supported when operating +in FIPS 140-2 compliance mode as it requires the use of the DES cipher. Password +authentication is requested with the @code{password} option, and then once QEMU +is running the password is set with the monitor. Until the monitor is used to +set the password all clients will be rejected. @example qemu-system-i386 [...OPTIONS...] -vnc :1,password -monitor stdio @@ -2390,7 +2392,7 @@ Set the x86 elf interpreter prefix (default=/usr/local/qemu-i386) @item -s size Set the x86 stack size in bytes (default=524288) @item -cpu model -Select CPU model (-cpu ? for list and additional feature selection) +Select CPU model (-cpu help for list and additional feature selection) @item -ignore-environment Start with an empty environment. Without this option, the initial environment is a copy of the caller's environment. |