When creating a virtual machine, if Virtual Machine Manager does not detect the Linux distribution of the install image, you can pick the "OS type" and "Version" from drop-down menus. As far as I can recall, the versions listed have pretty much always been somewhat out-of-date. For example, Ubuntu 16.04 was released about 6 months ago, but if I want to install a VM, the most recent option available in the virt-manager menu is 15.10. I imagine this doesn't significantly affect how the VM performs, but it is odd to see conflicting version information when the VM itself is one version but the virt-manager metadata says it's another version. (I'm using virt-manager 1.4.0 with libvirt 1.3.3.2 on Fedora 24.)
This info comes from libosinfo. In fedora 25 and later the package has been split, so the library is decoupled from the OS database, making it easier to update the os info and keep it up to date. So this should be getting better with f25+, but we didn't build that new version for f24 yet
The issue persists with libosinfo 1.0.0 (and virt-manager 1.4.0) on Fedora 25.
Which distros exactly are missing? They have to be added manually, so yes, this tends to lag behind a bit. Ubuntu 16.10/Fedora 25 seem to be missing, are these the ones you noted?
There's a build of osinfo-db that's still waiting to be pushed to stable that should cover all the missing distros: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-ba3e72c511
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Still doesn't list the latest stable Fedora (27) or Ubuntu (16.10)
oops, I meant Ubuntu 17.10, obviously.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle. Changing version to '28'.
Is there any way we could automate the list of available distro releases?
(In reply to Andrew Toskin from comment #10) > Is there any way we could automate the list of available distro releases? Unfortunately no. May I close this bug as CURRENT_RELEASE? Both Fedora and Ubuntu info are up-to-date in the last few builds.
We could possibly use release-monitoring.org to monitor distro releases? That's designed around watching releases for individual packages, though, and I'm not quite sure how we'd synthesize the information for osinfo-db... Maybe some kind of IfTTT.com script? If those don't work out, then I guess yeah, close this issue.