Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying the virtualization stuff now, and it works fine, but I can't start virt-manager. When I try, a window pops up saying "Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/virt-manager/pixmaps/virt-manager-icon.svg'".
> 
> And the "Details" button reveals:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 413, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 344, in main
>     appname + "-icon.svg")
> GError: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/virt-manager/pixmaps/virt-manager-icon.svg'
> 
> Is this working for others? Any idea what I may be missing (some hidden dependency?) or what could be the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Stephan
> 

Hi Stephan,
I haven't had a chance to install and test this, but I came upon this 
article today.

http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/set-up-kvm-on-scientific-linux-6-server-alpha-3/

 From the article it says
"
To be able to start virt-manager run as root to re-create the 
‘gdk-pixbuf.loaders’ file :-

/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-64 > 
/etc/gtk-2.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

or just comment out lines 343,344 in 
/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py to allow virt-manager to start .
"
I haven't tested this, but they were getting the same errors you were 
getting.

Troy
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