On Fri, November 6, 2009 16:21, James B. Byrne wrote:
file /usr/share/man/man1/qemu-img.1.gz from install of qemu-0.9.0-4.x86_64 conflicts with file from package kvm-qemu-img-83-105.el5_4.9.x86_64
I infer from this that qemu is NOT required with KVM and that kvm-qemu takes its place.
Well, it turns out that qemu is required and kvm-qemu-img was the source of the problem. Removing this and installing qemu instead fixed the problem.