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

[Frank Shute]

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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