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 -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany