I'm testing Ansible collections with a Molecule scenario that creates
libvirt managed KVM VMs. In order to test against the most recent
versions of Python, Ansible, Molecule, and the collection plugins I
create virtualenvs using pyenv managed Python installations.

The community.libvirt.virt_install module invokes the system
virt-install convenience script. When the pyenv / virtualenv managed
python is active, the virt-install script uses it instead of the system
python resulting in the error below.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 6, in <module>
    from virtinst import virtinstall
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/__init__.py", line 50, in <module>
    from virtinst.domain import *  # pylint: disable=wildcard-import
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .blkiotune import DomainBlkiotune
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/domain/blkiotune.py", line 8, in <module>
    from ..xmlbuilder import XMLBuilder, XMLChildProperty, XMLProperty
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/xmlbuilder.py", line 16, in <module>
    from .xmlapi import XMLAPI
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/xmlapi.py", line 7, in <module>
    import libxml2
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libxml2'


The Debian Python Policy specifically recommends using the full path to
the system python for this reason.

https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/#interpreter-location

Hello,

Bug #1116124 in virt-manager reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/virt-manager/-/commit/8112f16c648ad7309f0c6a7e796f864314ad4d92
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d/rules: drop dh_python3 override, so the default behaviour fixes shebangs

Closes: #1116124
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(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1116124

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
virt-manager, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1116124@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org> (supplier of updated virt-manager package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:09:14 +0200
Source: virt-manager
Architecture: source
Version: 1:5.1.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers <pkg-libvirt-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>
Closes: 1116124 1126867 1129529 1141028
Changes:
 virt-manager (1:5.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/patches: backport changes for compatibility with pytest 9
     (Closes: #1141028)
   * Remove redundant Priority: optional from source stanza.
   * Update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed.
   * d/watch: switch to v5
   * d/control: drop Rules-Requires-Root, no more needed since Debian trixie
   * Bump the debhelper compatibility to 14:
     - bump the debhelper-compat build dependency to 14
     - drop the ${python3:Depends}, and ${misc:Depends} substvars
   * d/control: add the cpio dependency to virt-install (Closes: #1129529)
   * d/rules: drop dh_python3 override, so the default behaviour fixes shebangs
     (Closes: #1116124)
   * d/control: add the libvirt-daemon dependency to virt-install
     (Closes: #1126867)
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