[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#731545: virt-manager: when console is displayed the X server is grabbed

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.5-1
Severity: important


Hello,

I tried to run a virtual machine using virt-manager instead of manually
starting qemu.

virt-manager is cool but when the VM console is displayed the X server
is grabbed without any warning and there is no way to interact with the
rest of X session whatsoever.

I understand that you need to grab mouse for relative mouse movement in
the VM to work and you may need to grab keyboard for some keyboard
shortcuts in the VM to work.

However, there is no way to configure this and

1) I never want relative mouse, ever. Hence there is no reason for
virt-manager to grab mouse, ever. Unless I am testing how broken hte
relative mouse support is, of course.

2) I don't want keyboard grab in most VMs because I use them to run
applications that won't run natively for some reason and need the WM
shortcuts to be able to switch to and away from the application in
question.

I have a patch for gtk-vnc which adds options for this to work but
upstream rejected the patch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594566

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (910, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental'), (300, 'saucy-updates'), (300, 'saucy-security'), (300, 'saucy-proposed'), (300, 'saucy-backports'), (300, 'saucy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11.0-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2             3.2.5-1+build1
ii  librsvg2-common    2.36.1-1
ii  python             2.7.5-5
ii  python-dbus        1.1.1-1
ii  python-glade2      2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-gnome2      2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gtk-vnc     0.5.2-2
ii  python-gtk2        2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-ipy         1:0.75-1
ii  python-libvirt     1.1.4-2
ii  python-support     1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4
ii  python-vte         1:0.28.2-5
ii  virtinst           0.600.4-2

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libvirt-bin              1.1.4-2
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.21-0nocelt3

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
pn  gnome-keyring        <none>
pn  python-gnomekeyring  <none>
pn  python-guestfs       <none>
pn  ssh-askpass          <none>
ii  virt-viewer          0.5.6-2

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