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Description of problem:
creating vms fails, with inability to create tap devices

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fresh minimal install
2. add libvirt
3. connect to system using virt-manager
4. try to create a vm

Actual results:
fails

Expected results:
should work

Additional info:
add tunectl to "Requires"

Please provide the actual error messages received.  libvirt has no need for any tunctl program as it opens /dev/net/tun directly, and this device node is automatically created by udev on all my RHEL6 systems.

I have not been able to reproduce this issue, after uninstalling tunctl. Odd. It was related with unable to create tap device, using qemu.

Since the problem is now not reproducible, I'm going to close this BZ, but of course please reopen if you are able to reproduce it.