[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#703389: virt-manager: Impossible to view VM details without stealing spice display from other connection

[Daniel Dickinson]

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

I have several virtual machines running which I want to control via VMM, however these VMs or normally running and have a Spice connection from another computer/viewer (e.g. virt-viewer), and when I attempt to use VMM on the host to view or change VM details VMM grabs the Spice display away from the other viewer, even if I select Edit|View VM Details, and do not touch the viewer in VMM.

This makes using VMM to control VMs without using VMM as the viewer rather difficult (and I want users to be able to use the VM without having the access required to use VMM - e.g. r/w access on the control socket).  They are separate functions, and should be independently available.

-- 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