KVM installation and setup procedure in RHEL

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Issue

GUI Error when starting the Virtual Machine Manager:

Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-oZzzc3a67c: Connection refused)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383, in <module>
  main()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 315, in main

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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