Nothing useful (to me.) zoolook@venkman:~$ virt-manager --debug 2011-02-25 21:02:01,927 (virt-manager:161): Application startup 2011-02-25 21:02:02,070 (keyring:31): No support for gnome-keyring 2011-02-25 21:02:02,190 (engine:344): About to connect to uris ['qemu+ssh://norberto@kvm0/system', 'qemu:///system'] 2011-02-25 21:02:02,245 (engine:634): window counter incremented to 1 2011-02-25 21:02:02,326 (connection:861): Scheduling background open thread for qemu:///system 2011-02-25 21:02:02,327 (connection:1006): Background thread is running 2011-02-25 21:02:02,328 (connection:1044): Background open thread complete, scheduling notify 2011-02-25 21:02:02,465 (connection:1049): Notifying open result 2011-02-25 21:02:02,487 (connection:1057): qemu:///system capabilities: e0be0011-d800-0165-c331-001bfcfb8208 x86_64 core2duo Intel tcp apparmor 0 hvm 32 /usr/bin/qemu pc-0.12 pc pc-0.11 pc-0.10 isapc /usr/bin/kvm pc-0.12 pc pc-0.11 pc-0.10 isapc hvm 64 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 pc-0.12 pc pc-0.11 pc-0.10 isapc /usr/bin/kvm pc-0.12 pc pc-0.11 pc-0.10 isapc 2011-02-25 21:02:02,514 (connection:1236): Connection doesn't seem to support interface APIs. Skipping all interface polling. 2011-02-25 21:02:02,677 (connection:214): Using HAL for netdev enumeration 2011-02-25 21:02:02,679 (connection:251): Using libvirt API for mediadev enumeration 2011-02-25 21:02:02,710 (manager:803): VM kvm-egon started 2011-02-25 21:02:02,710 (manager:803): VM kvm-gozer started 2011-02-25 21:02:04,724 (create:715): Guest type set to os_type=hvm, arch=x86_64, dom_type=kvm 2011-02-25 21:02:30,013 (DistroInstaller:119): DistroInstaller location is a local file/path: /vmstorage/cds/ubuntu-rescue-remix-10-10.iso (here it hangs for ever) At 21:50:00 I decided to kill the virt-manager (ctrl-alt-esc in kde)