Feature request: virt-manager as a snap

[GizmoChicken]

Seems to me that packaging virt-manager as a snap would allow for delivering the most current version across supported Ubuntu releases. Could we get virt-manager packaged as a snap?

Note that qemu (with virgil enabled) is already available as a snap.
See https://snapcraft.io/qemu-virgil

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Yeah, there is a libvirt interface these days so while I'm not working on it I think this might work fine nowadays. That would make it use the hosts libvirt and qemu then.

FYI: Note that any Ubuntu >=19.04 also has a virgl enabled qemu by default

[GizmoChicken (gizmochicken)]

Could virt-manager, libvirt, and qemu all be rolled into a *single* snap, allowing all these components to be simultaneously upgraded to the latest versions?

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

In theory yes, but it would looses a lot of flexibility as an upgrade on any of them needs you to rebuild all each tie with a chance of new deps creeping in and breaking builds.
TBH - I'm a big fan of [1] for the purpose of a new virt stack, yet it doesn't come with virt-manager (which I don't need).

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenStack/CloudArchive

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

The recent update of this made me see the bug again.
Just wanted to say that [1] has virt-manager backports as well where it was able to build.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-server/+archive/ubuntu/server-backports