Description of problem:

When trying to create a vm for rhel6 I get this message:

Unable to complete install: 'internal error Unable to daemonize QEMU process'

with this stack trace:

Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError internal error Unable to daemonize QEMU process
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 724, in do_install
    dom = guest.start_install(False, meter = meter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install
    return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install
    self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 974, in createLinux
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error Unable to daemonize QEMU process
'

and these messages in /var/log/messages:

Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu libvirtd: 10:13:26.100: error : Domain not found: no domain with matching uuid '"t���8��@��N' 
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu libvirtd: 10:13:26.107: error : Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'dlptest2' 
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: device vnet0 entered promiscuous mode
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: virbr0: topology change detected, propagating
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: virbr0: port 1(vnet0) entering forwarding state
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: libvirtd[17488]: segfault at 000000004453c000 rip 00002ad2b57eaf31 rsp 0000000044538ca0 error 4
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu libvirtd: 10:13:26.200: error : internal error Unable to daemonize QEMU process 
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: virbr0: port 1(vnet0) entering disabled state
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: device vnet0 left promiscuous mode
Apr 27 10:13:26 bleu kernel: virbr0: port 1(vnet0) entering disabled state


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-83-164.el5
kmod-kvm-83-164.el5
kvm-tools-83-164.el5
kvm-qemu-img-83-164.el5
libvirt-python-0.6.3-33.el5
libvirt-0.6.3-33.el5

The actual vm settings are pretty standard:

fully virtualized, 512M, 1 cpu

RHEL6 selected as os, booting from cdrom image

4G disk

virtual network