virt-manager -> create a new vm -> "Connect to host network"

choosing "Shared physical device" the "Device:" drop-down list is empty

If I hit forward, I get "Physical Device Required You must select one of the physical devices".

If I look in /root/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log I see:

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:28:54 ERROR    Unable to connect to HAL to list network devices: '%s'dbus_bindings.DBusException A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 104, in detect_network_devices
    self._device_added(path)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 115, in _device_added
    if obj.QueryCapability("net"):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__
    ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__
    reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
  File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
DBusException: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "QueryCapability" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:28:58 ERROR    Unable to connect to HAL to list cdrom volumes: 'A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "(unset)" member "GetPropertyBoolean" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")'


CentOS 5.1 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge (not sure of exact model, it is remote)
but the specs are: 2 x 2.50 Ghz Quad-Core Processors, 16 GB RAM

nearly bare install (have added gcc, gcc-c++, dhcpd, openntpd)

"yum update" reports no updates

SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config (and have rebooted)

any help would be greatly appreciated.