Hi all,

I've just installed a virtual machine and have encrypted one of the VM's partitions (/dev/vdaX).

When this VM is started using the virt-manager the startup procedure is clearly visible (GUI) and at a certain point a pass-phrase is asked.

virsh start <domain> does start the domain, but the VM itself is (obviously) waiting until a pass-phrase is provided and thus never fully starts.

I was wondering if it is possible to not use the virt-manager, but virsh start <?option?> domain to start the VM and provide the pass-phrase (interactive/none-interactive).

A search came up empty (all related to encrypting a virtual machine’s disks, which is not what I'm after).

This is just me playing around. I do realize that encrypting the disk image used by the VM would be a better solution if this would be for real.

Just in case:
- Host: RHEL 6.1
- Guest: RHEL 6.1
- libvirt: 0.8.7

Thanks in advance!