Re: [ITA] libvirt

On 26/07/2026 18:24, Jason Pyeron via Cygwin wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Pyeron <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2026 1:19 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [ITA] libvirt
> 
> Bounced on the apps list.
> 
>>
>> I have been running a dedicated cygwin install to use virt-manager.
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-10.0 hostname 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 17:48 x86_64 Cygwin
>>
>> As anything newer prevented virt-manager from (fully?) functioning.
>>
>> Looking to https://libvirt.org/downloads.html (releases) I see:
>> 	libvirt-12.5.0.tar.xz	2026-07-01 12:01
>> 	libvirt-4.2.0.tar.xz	2018-04-01 08:09
>>
>> Looking to https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/libvirt-src.html I see:
>> 4.2.0-1	2018-04-16 06:07
>>
>> I am moving this on to my plate to update. No promises, but my team has been complaining that my virt-
>> manager is too old, so I have
>> some motivation to get this working.

Thanks for looking into this.

I've added libvirt to your packages.

You already have virt-manager since [1].

I suspect you may also need to update python-libvirt.

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-May/253637.html

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