KVM: 0.258 other: 0.134 semantic: 0.129 graphic: 0.095 device: 0.085 files: 0.048 permissions: 0.045 debug: 0.036 performance: 0.033 socket: 0.031 vnc: 0.031 PID: 0.030 network: 0.023 boot: 0.022 KVM: 0.815 debug: 0.035 files: 0.033 other: 0.032 PID: 0.014 socket: 0.012 network: 0.011 semantic: 0.011 performance: 0.010 device: 0.008 graphic: 0.006 boot: 0.006 permissions: 0.004 vnc: 0.003 Qemu / KVM always wants to be on top Whenever I pass with the mouse over the KVM (qemu) window, it automatically raises on top, obscuring other windows on the same desktop, which is rather intrusive... No other application does this. > dpkg -l qemu-kvm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii qemu-kvm 2.0.0+dfsg-2 amd64 QEMU Full virtualization Seems like you are using the QEMU from your Linux distribution. If you want to have support for that version, you should use the bug tracker from your distro instead. Otherwise, can you please try again with the latest version from http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Download to see whether the bug is already fixed there? Thanks! Seems to be fixed by now. Indeed kvm no longer does this on none of the 2 distributions that I currently use (Debian 8.6.0 and Kubuntu 14.04.5) [Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]