Virsh: Different XML with edit than dumpxml. Why?

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Published on 2010-12-23T12:10:30Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 12:55 UTC
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I'm trying to fetch the VNC access data from a virtual machine managed by libVirt. However, when I run virsh dumpxml $machine, the vnc passwd is missing:

<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'/>

Checking the same using virsh edit $machine, I see the password is actually there:

<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' passwd='asdf'/>

Why is this? Is this intentional (what reason?), or could this be a bug?

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