Please consider upgrade to the latest upstream (1.3.2+)

[Tuomas Jormola]

Would be great to have the latest 1.3.x series in the upcoming 16.04 LTS. Not packaged for Debian/sid yet, though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[bojo42 (bojo42)]

Yes we should really aim for that and maybe just prepare an update to Debian sid and sync/merge from it. As gizmochicken said on bug 1409309: "The "kvm_hidden=on|off" feature in 1.3.1 is reportedly helpful for those attempting to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. So that alone may be enough to justify the bump."

I am willing to help and already did packaging on 1.2.1 before it got into Debian, but ended up using the packages only personally. So this time i want guidance and collaboration instead of spending a few hours just for my own packages :)

[GizmoChicken (gizmochicken)]

I propose that Ubuntu create an OFFICIAL ppa at which the most recent versions of virt-manager and qemu can be found, much like "ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa" provides an official ppa at which the latest nvidia drivers can be found.

But at least for me, Jacob Zimmermann's ppa (ppa:jacob/virtualisation) has been a reliable source the most recent versions of virt-manager and qemu.

Maybe Jacob Zimmermann's ppa could become an OFFICIAL ppa?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

as an avid user i need this...

[bhat3 (bhat3)]

@Dimitri I was also right before doing the packaging in case no one of the other affected people already gave it a shot. If you start packaging please keep us informed.

As Bojo stated we need to get the package into Debian first, for getting it into xenial.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I've packaged 1.3.2, and will upload it in a few minutes if it tests ok.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virt-manager - 1:1.3.2-0ubuntu1

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virt-manager (1:1.3.2-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Updated to upstream 1.3.2 release. (LP: #1533004)
    - d/p/Make-sure-we-use-a-binary-compatible-version-of-vte.patch:
      removed, no longer required.
    - d/p/leave-mnemonics-alone-on-focus-change.patch: updated to fix bug.
    - d/p/virtinst/use_qxl_for_ubuntu.patch: updated for new version.
    - debian/rules: remove data/gschemas.compiled generated by clean,
      pass --no-update-icon-cache --no-compile-schemas to install.
    - debian/control: added python-requests to Depends.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:11:39 -0500

[bojo42 (bojo42)]

@Marc Big THX :)