--- /dev/null
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
+Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 12:16:48 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] PVE: Add dummy -id command line parameter
+
+This used to be part of the qemu-side PVE authentication for
+VNC. Now this does nothing.
+
+Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
+---
+ qemu-options.hx | 3 +++
+ softmmu/vl.c | 8 ++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
+index fc6cb23dd9..3ccedf7c45 100644
+--- a/qemu-options.hx
++++ b/qemu-options.hx
+@@ -1150,6 +1150,9 @@ backend describes how QEMU handles the data.
+
+ ERST
+
++DEF("id", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_id,
++ "-id n set the VMID", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
++
+ DEF("fda", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_fda,
+ "-fda/-fdb file use 'file' as floppy disk 0/1 image\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+ DEF("fdb", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_fdb, "", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
+index 0eabc71b68..323f6a23d4 100644
+--- a/softmmu/vl.c
++++ b/softmmu/vl.c
+@@ -2648,6 +2648,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
+ MachineClass *machine_class;
+ bool userconfig = true;
+ FILE *vmstate_dump_file = NULL;
++ long vm_id;
+
+ qemu_add_opts(&qemu_drive_opts);
+ qemu_add_drive_opts(&qemu_legacy_drive_opts);
+@@ -3271,6 +3272,13 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
+ machine_parse_property_opt(qemu_find_opts("smp-opts"),
+ "smp", optarg);
+ break;
++ case QEMU_OPTION_id:
++ vm_id = strtol(optarg, (char **)&optarg, 10);
++ if (*optarg != 0 || vm_id < 100 || vm_id > INT_MAX) {
++ error_report("invalid -id argument %s", optarg);
++ exit(1);
++ }
++ break;
+ case QEMU_OPTION_vnc:
+ vnc_parse(optarg);
+ break;