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Description of problem: When using ssh to a rhel6.9 host, then open a guest with password setting, finding "Save this password in your keyring" checkbox is diabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.10.2-62.el6.x86_64 virt-manager-0.9.0-33.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: On local machineA 1. Open virt-manager, make sure a good guest is in shutdown status. 2. Open guest details page, Click Display Spice in hardware tab, add a password to "aabb", Apply. Then on machineB, using ssh -X to connect to machineA. # ssh root@machineA -X 3. Launch virt-manager. # virt-manager 4. Start the guest, when the guest boot up, An password need input to open console. Actual results: "Save this password in your keyring" checkbox is diabled Expected results: "Save this password in your keyring" checkbox is enabled. Additional info:
That feature depends on availability and usability of gnome-keyring. In case of RHEL-6 the gnome-keyring is not available if you are connected over ssh. There is nothing that can be done on virt-manager side and it's not a bug in virt-manager.