diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3398070e..639bd582 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_INIT(gnome-virt-manager.spec.in)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gnome-virt-manager, 0.0.1)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gnome-virt-manager, 0.0.2)
 
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile
           src/Makefile
diff --git a/docs/dbus-remote-control.txt b/docs/dbus-remote-control.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dc8e5705
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/dbus-remote-control.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+   DBus Remote Control
+   ===================
+
+The GNOME virt manager provides the ability to control its high level
+UI actions via a DBus service. 
+
+Interface description
+---------------------
+
+The service is intended to run on the session bus, and when launched 
+will register a well known bus name of 'com.redhat.virt.manager.ui'.
+Within this service, a single object is to be exported under the
+path of '/com/redhat/virt/manager/ui'.
+
+This object implements a single interface 'com.redhat.virt.manager.ui'
+which contains the following methods:
+
+ - show_domain_performance(string:uuid)
+     Takes a domain's UUID in printable string format and displays
+     the window showing detailed performance data
+
+ - show_domain_editor(string:uuid)
+     Takes a domain's UUID in printable string format and displays
+     the window for configuring the VM hardware resources
+
+ - show_domain_console(string:uuid)
+     Takes a domain's UUID in printable string format and displays
+     the window for accessing the graphical framebuffer associated
+     with the VM.
+
+ - show_domain_creator()
+     Displys the window for creating & configuring a new domain
+
+ - show_host_summary()
+     Displays the window showing a summary of all active domains 
+     on the host
+
+Example usage from shell
+------------------------
+
+To display the performance window for the domain with a UUID of
+'349025e8-ad34-34ff-239a-12ae095249f3', one would use the dbus-send
+command as follows:
+
+  # First ensure the application is running
+  $ dbus-send --session --dest="org.freedesktop.DBus" \
+              "/org/freedesktop/DBus" \
+              "org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName" \
+              "string:com.redhat.virt.manager.ui"
+
+  # Now call the show_domain_performance method
+  $dbus-send --session --dest="com.redhat.virt.manager.ui" \
+             "/com/redhat/virt/manager/ui"
+             "com.redhat.virt.manager.ui.show_domain_performance" \
+             "string:349025e8-ad34-34ff-239a-12ae095249f3"
+
+Example usage from python
+-------------------------
+
+  import dbus
+
+  bus = dbus.SessionBus()
+
+  bus_object = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.DBus", "/org/freedesktop/DBus")
+  bus_iface = dbus.Interface(bus_object, "org.freedesktop.DBus")
+  bus_iface.StartServiceByName("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui")
+
+
+  virt_object = bus.get_object("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui",
+                               "/com/redhat/virt/manager/ui")
+  virt_iface = dbus.Interface(virt_object, "com.redhat.virt.manager.ui")
+  virt_iface.show_domain_performance("349025e8-ad34-34ff-239a-12ae095249f3")
+
+
+
diff --git a/gnome-virt-manager.spec.in b/gnome-virt-manager.spec.in
index e243b4dc..a528ea4e 100644
--- a/gnome-virt-manager.spec.in
+++ b/gnome-virt-manager.spec.in
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 Requires: python
 Requires: pygtk2 >= 1.99.12-6
 Requires: gnome-python2-gconf >= 1.99.11-7
-Requires: libvirt-python >= 0.0.6
+Requires: libvirt-python >= 0.1.0
 Requires: python-matplotlib
 
 BuildArchitectures: noarch
@@ -43,9 +43,14 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
 /usr/bin/%{name}
+/usr/libexec/%{name}-launch
 /usr/share/%{name}/*
 /usr/share/applications/%{name}.desktop
+/usr/share/dbus-1/services/%{name}.service
 
 %changelog
-* Wed Mar 29 2006  <berrange@redhat.com> - 0.0.1-1
+* Thu Apr 20 2006 Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 0.0.2-1
+- Added DBus remote control service
+
+* Wed Mar 29 2006 Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 0.0.1-1
 - Initial RPM build
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 8d221365..56261bbd 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ pythondir = $(pkgdatadir)
 python_SOURCES = $(PACKAGE).py.in
 python_DATA = $(PACKAGE).py
 
+libexec_SOURCES = $(PACKAGE)-launch.in
+libexec_SCRIPTS = $(PACKAGE)-launch
+
 gladedir = $(pkgdatadir)
 glade_DATA = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.glade)
 
@@ -13,18 +16,28 @@ desktopdir = $(datadir)/applications
 desktop_SOURCES = $(PACKAGE).desktop.in
 desktop_DATA = $(PACKAGE).desktop
 
-CLEANFILES = $(PACKAGE) $(PACKAGE).py  $(PACKAGE).desktop
+dbusdir = $(datadir)/dbus-1/services
+dbus_SOURCES = $(PACKAGE).service.in
+dbus_DATA = $(PACKAGE).service
 
-EXTRA_DIST = $(bin_SOURCES) $(desktop_SOURCES) $(python_SOURCES) $(glade_DATA)
+CLEANFILES = $(bin_SCRIPTS) $(desktop_DATA) $(dbus_DATA) $(python_DATA)  $(libexec_SCRIPTS)
+
+EXTRA_DIST = $(bin_SOURCES) $(desktop_SOURCES) $(dbus_SOURCES) $(python_SOURCES) $(glade_DATA) $(libexec_SOURCES)
 
 
 %.desktop: $(srcdir)/%.desktop.in
 	sed -e "s,::PACKAGE::,$(PACKAGE)," -e "s,::ICONDIR::,$(pkgdatadir)," < $< > $@
 
+%.service: $(srcdir)/%.service.in
+	sed -e "s,::PACKAGE::,$(PACKAGE)," -e "s,::PREFIX::,$(prefix)," < $< > $@
+
 %.py: $(srcdir)/%.py.in
 	sed -e "s,::PACKAGE::,$(PACKAGE)," -e "s,::ASSETDIR::,$(pkgdatadir)," < $< > $@
 
 gnome-virt-manager: $(srcdir)/gnome-virt-manager.in
 	sed -e "s,::PACKAGE::,$(PACKAGE)," -e "s,::PYTHONDIR::,$(pkgdatadir)," < $< > $@
 
+gnome-virt-manager-launch: $(srcdir)/gnome-virt-manager-launch.in
+	sed -e "s,::PACKAGE::,$(PACKAGE)," -e "s,::PYTHONDIR::,$(pkgdatadir)," < $< > $@
+
 
diff --git a/src/gnome-virt-manager-launch.in b/src/gnome-virt-manager-launch.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..742a4ce2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gnome-virt-manager-launch.in
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+exec python "::PYTHONDIR::/::PACKAGE::.py"
diff --git a/src/gnome-virt-manager.in b/src/gnome-virt-manager.in
index 742a4ce2..0db87349 100755
--- a/src/gnome-virt-manager.in
+++ b/src/gnome-virt-manager.in
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-exec python "::PYTHONDIR::/::PACKAGE::.py"
+set -e
+
+dbus-send --session --dest="org.freedesktop.DBus" /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:'com.redhat.virt.manager.ui'
+
+dbus-send --session --dest="com.redhat.virt.manager.ui" /com/redhat/virt/manager/ui com.redhat.virt.manager.ui.show_host_summary
diff --git a/src/gnome-virt-manager.py.in b/src/gnome-virt-manager.py.in
index 8d73e08a..d098f8e6 100755
--- a/src/gnome-virt-manager.py.in
+++ b/src/gnome-virt-manager.py.in
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ import gtk
 import gobject
 import gtk.gdk
 import gtk.glade
+import dbus
+import dbus.glib
+import dbus.service
 from time import time
 import re
 import os
@@ -1249,10 +1252,39 @@ class vmmEngine:
                 uuid.append('-')
         return "".join(uuid)        
 
+class vmmRemote(dbus.service.Object):
+    def __init__(self, engine, bus_name, object_path="/com/redhat/virt/manager/ui"):
+        dbus.service.Object.__init__(self, bus_name, object_path)
+
+        self.engine = engine
+
+    @dbus.service.method("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui")
+    def show_domain_creator(self):
+        # XXX fixme
+        self.engine.show_about()
+
+    @dbus.service.method("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui", in_signature="s")
+    def show_domain_editor(self, uuid):
+        self.engine.show_details(uuid)
+        
+    @dbus.service.method("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui", in_signature="s")
+    def show_domain_performance(self, uuid):
+        self.engine.show_details(uuid)
+        
+    @dbus.service.method("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui", in_signature="s")
+    def show_domain_console(self, uuid):
+        self.engine.show_console(uuid)
+        
+    @dbus.service.method("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui")
+    def show_host_summary(self):
+        self.engine.show_details(uuid)
         
 # Run me!
 def main():
     engine = vmmEngine()
+    bus = dbus.SessionBus()
+    name = dbus.service.BusName("com.redhat.virt.manager.ui", bus=bus)
+    remote = vmmRemote(engine, name)
     engine.show_manager()
     gtk.main()
 
diff --git a/src/gnome-virt-manager.service.in b/src/gnome-virt-manager.service.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a0320b66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gnome-virt-manager.service.in
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[D-BUS Service]
+Name=com.redhat.virt.manager.ui
+Exec=::PREFIX::/libexec/::PACKAGE::-launch