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Description of problem:
Upstream, the intent is to merge the python-virtinst codebase into virt-manager, and cease distributing a separate python-virtinst package. The reason for this is to allow us freedom to refactor virt-manager & virt-install without need to maintain API compatibility.

Given this is imminent upstream, it is seriously undesirable to ship & support the separate virtinst/virt-manager packages in RHEL-7 for the next 10 years. This would mean we were effectively shipping a codebase which is unmaintained upstream.

Dan, what's the status of this work upstream?

The code was merged upstream, we're working on polishing details before moving to POST.

The merge was finished upstream and picked up in virt-manager-0.10.0.

Tested with:
virt-manager-0.10.0-1.el7.noarch

Checked the packages for virt-manager,there are:
virt-install-0.10.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm 
virt-manager-0.10.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm 
virt-manager-common-0.10.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm 

So the code of python-virtinst has been included in virt-manager,move the bug to VERIFIED.

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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