Bug 1356407

Summary:	Virt-manager shows unconsistently after changing guest configuration two times when guest is running
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	XiaoyunHu <xiahu>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	berrange, crobinso, gscrivan, juzhou, mxie, mzhan, phrdina, tzheng, xiaodwan
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Description XiaoyunHu 2016-07-14 05:49:06 UTC

Description of problem:
Virt-manager shows unconsistently after changing guest configuration two times when guest is running

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Virt-manager-1.4.0-1.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare a healthy guest with qxl video and start it in virt-manager.
2. Click hardware details page and select one tab to edit(I selected Video ).
3. Change the type from qxl to VGA,
4. Change the type from qxl to VGA again.

Actual results:
After step3, video settings back to "qxl" in virt-manager GUI after click "Apply" button.
After step4, video settings will keep "VGA" this time after click "Apply" button.

Expected results:
 
Additional info:
It also occurs in setting CPUs/storage/NIC tab.

Comment 6 mxie@redhat.com 2017-02-16 09:05:48 UTC

Found another similar problem like this bug:

Description of problem:
The setting of graphic password will be saved after setting password for running guest's graphic two times in virt-manager

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-1.4.0-2.el7.noarch
libvirt-2.0.0-10.el7_3.4.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.6.0-28.el7_3.3.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1 Prepare a running guest and guest graphic has no password in virt-manager

2.Try to set password for runnning guest's graphic in virt-manager.
Open guest's virtual hardware detail->Display Spice/VNC         -> check button "Password" and set password-> Apply

3.There is dialog "These changes will take effect after the next guest shutdown" showing, repeat step3 two times, then the setting of graphic password will be saved after clicking ok of the dialog "These changes will take effect after the next guest shutdown"

Comment 7 Cole Robinson 2020-01-29 23:59:02 UTC

Fixed upstream now:

commit b671c7cf412cacc80dfb43317fe056ddbdbd4960
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Date:   Wed Jan 29 10:08:15 2020 -0500

    libvirtobject: Always define even if XML isn't different