[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#703218: virt-manager: Fails to prevent virt-manager in VM from connecting to it's own display in VMM on the host

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.1-4
Severity: normal

I want to control VM's from a guest VM; that work fine, but for kicks I decided to try to connect to the guest VM from a VMM session running inside the guest VM.

It breaks somewhat badly.  Aside from the fact that it steals the display from the host VMM and doesn't let the host VMM steal it back (connection times out), in fact all graceful host operations on the guest cease to work from e.g. virsh.  (timeouts).

Destroy from virsh works, but isn't that great an option (if you have SSH in, you should be able to at least do a restart of the VM without that).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                   3.2.5-1+build1
ii  librsvg2-common          2.36.1-1
ii  python                   2.7.3-4
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           0.5.0-3.1
ii  python-gtk2              2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-ipy               1:0.75-1
ii  python-libvirt           0.9.12-11
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.12-5
ii  python-support           1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber        3.9.1-4
ii  python-vte               1:0.28.2-5
ii  virtinst                 0.600.1-3

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.4.0-2
ii  libvirt-bin       0.9.12-11

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gnome-keyring        3.4.1-5
pn  hal                  <none>
pn  python-gnomekeyring  <none>
pn  python-guestfs       <none>
ii  ssh-askpass          1:1.2.4.1-9
ii  virt-viewer          0.5.3-1

-- no debconf information