My series is now posted. I have run both your patches and my patches through cimtest on my f18 box. Although it was not a very enjoyable experience today as recent yum updates and subsequent reboot made things quite frustrating. I couldn't seem to convince the libvirt-cim build to find the libcmpiutil in the 64 bit area. It had something to do with the 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' variable. Once I worked through that the generation of the rpm was failing because of 'BuildConflicts: sblim-cmpi-devel' in libvirt-cim.spec. My cimtest still has problems with any of the *Indications cimtests - I get errors such as: ComputerSystemIndication - 01_created_indication.py: FAIL Error connecting to CIMOM: [Errno 110] Connection timed out There's a significant pause. Perhaps there's some sort of iptables thing I have to do - I haven't really investigated. I've been able to procure a RHEL6 box and will probably move my testing there (when I have time). John