Hi Troy,

On Dec 27, 2010, at 19:20 , Troy Dawson wrote:

> Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> 
>> 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

this makes it work, thanks a lot. I figure it's probably a matter of installation order. And I seem to remember it's not the first time the gdk-pixbuf stuff is causing this kind of problem :-(

Maybe someone should tell them that rpm now has triggers :->

Except for this problem, virtualization works well. I successfully installed SL6 xen paravirt VMs (64- and 32-bit) on an SL5 xen host (64-bit), SL6 VMs on an SL6 KVM host (64/64), and SL5.5 VMs on an SL6 KVM host (also 64/64), using virt-install and raw LVM volumes on direct attached storage as the backend. I haven't compared the performance to Xen yet, but it works without problems.

Thanks again,
	Stephan

> 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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