Xen howto: inexplicable "Kernel image does not exist" error

[Le Cocq Michel]

I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ?

M

Matt Pounsett a écrit :
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> I'm trying to get FreeBSD running under Xen on a RedHat RHEL5 box.  I 
> seem to be stumped really early in the process by something... 
> strange.  I don't have a good explanation for it, other than Xen doing 
> something weird, and thought I'd ask if anyone else had seen something 
> similar.  All the information I've found googling this error relates 
> to users forgetting to install key packages, which doesn't seem to be 
> related here.
>
> Basically, I'm following the directions at 
> http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/howto.html.  When I hit step 4, and try to 
> run "xm create", xen complains:
>
> # xm create -c freebsd_xen_INSTALL
> Using config file "./freebsd_xen_INSTALL".
> Error: Kernel image does not exist: 
> /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL
>
> However, that kernel file does exist:
>
> # ls -l /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 mattp users 7379253 Aug 26  2006 
> /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL
>
> I'm using the config file suggested by the instructions with only two 
> changes:
> 1) change the 'kernel' reference to the kernel file listed above
> 2) change the 'disk' reference to the image file created in step 1 (I 
> also tried without this change)
>
> Am I missing something here?  Looks to me like either Xen is trying to 
> chroot somewhere before loading the kernel (don't see anything 
> relevant in the config file I downloaded) or something is broken 
> somewhere.
>
> Has this been seen before, or does anyone have suggestions about where 
> to check for the error?
>
> Matt
>
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