problems with virt-manager and virt-install

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I am having an issue on RHEL 6 (Santiago) where when I do a certain action like creating a new VM, nothing is happening. I was trying to use TWM to run the program when this is occurring. Even when I go to the About tab, same thing, nothing is happening. I did notice that some buttons are missing icons and I can tell because the icon would only be a red x. I did try to reinstall it through YUM and I did add EPEL Repository to see if it could install anything missing for it, but that also didn't make a difference.

Since I was having issues with using virt-manager, I try using virt-install. Bam! Another issue! I was able to create a VM without the installation source, but when I try using either location=/mnt/iso or cdrom=/mnt/cdx (or vice versa), I keep getting an message that tells me that "The location must be the root directory of an install tree." I did follow directions in a documentation to setup an install tree and went as far as mounting an iso file and mounting the install tree as an NFS. Still no luck.

uname -r:
2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64

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Is it possible to provide a screenshot?

This is definitely odd. Perhaps some necessary packages didn't get installed on the system. How did you initially install virt-manager? If you did not use the "yum groupinstall" command, might I suggest running this:

# yum groupinstall Virtualization*

It worked when I did do that. Thank you so much.

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