Xen howto: inexplicable "Kernel image does not exist" error
Frank Shute
frank at esperance-linux.co.uk
Thu Nov 29 08:37:09 PST 2007
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:04:37AM -0500, Matt Pounsett wrote:
>
>
> On 2007-Nov-29, at 01:29, Le Cocq Michel wrote:
>
> >I'm in front of the same trouble, did you find a solution ?
>
> No, I haven't found a solution, and haven't received any
> suggestions. I've moved on until the FreeBSD under Xen thing becomes
> a bit more baked.
>
<snip>
>
> >>
> >># 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
> >>
Wild guess (I don't use Xen):
Have you tried changing permissions on the kernel e.g
# chmod 555 freebsd-XENU_INSTALL
same as the freebsd kernel. Maybe:
# chown root:wheel freebsd-XENU_INSTALL
also might be worth a try.
--
Frank
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