This should finally get fixed here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/923e931188dcbb7
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453608 Title: explain what pcsys_monitor in manpage Status in QEMU: Fix Committed Bug description: The specification of vnc passwords seems to have changed. `man qemu- system-x86_64` mentions `set_password` to be used in `pcsys_monitor`. Both are are not further mentioned in the man page and misteriously inexisting in both the web and the source root (as far as `grep -r -I 'pcsys_monitor' .` is concerned). That's too vage to be usable. experienced with 2.3.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1453608/+subscriptions