Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:04:37 -0500 From: Matt Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> To: Le Cocq Michel <Michel.Lecocq@lipn.univ-paris13.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xen howto: inexplicable "Kernel image does not exist" error Message-ID: <2128C5FA-E300-4B6B-AE6D-00A95C829AD7@conundrum.com> In-Reply-To: <474E5C4D.6060903@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> References: <AE693B32-2060-468C-A5C1-F073B93AA201@conundrum.com> <474E5C4D.6060903@lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 =20 suggestions. I've moved on until the FreeBSD under Xen thing becomes =20= a bit more baked. > > M > > Matt Pounsett a =E9crit : >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> I'm trying to get FreeBSD running under Xen on a RedHat RHEL5 =20 >> box. I seem to be stumped really early in the process by =20 >> something... strange. I don't have a good explanation for it, =20 >> other than Xen doing something weird, and thought I'd ask if =20 >> anyone else had seen something similar. All the information I've =20 >> found googling this error relates to users forgetting to install =20 >> key packages, which doesn't seem to be related here. >> >> Basically, I'm following the directions at http://www.yuanjue.net/=20 >> xen/howto.html. When I hit step 4, and try to run "xm create", =20 >> xen complains: >> >> # xm create -c freebsd_xen_INSTALL >> Using config file "./freebsd_xen_INSTALL". >> Error: Kernel image does not exist: /home/mattp/FreeBSD-XENU/=20 >> 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/=20 >> FreeBSD-XENU/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL >> >> I'm using the config file suggested by the instructions with only =20 >> 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 =20= >> (I also tried without this change) >> >> Am I missing something here? Looks to me like either Xen is =20 >> trying to chroot somewhere before loading the kernel (don't see =20 >> anything relevant in the config file I downloaded) or something is =20= >> broken somewhere. >> >> Has this been seen before, or does anyone have suggestions about =20 >> where to check for the error? >> >> Matt >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) >> >> iD8DBQFHHPGpmFeRJ0tjIxERAgC3AKCWWmRyK3PgI0NXH2FZDEUE4ZBeIwCeP0ZI >> qTEXAYowhmspZCDlN2HMW68=3D >> =3DJSqE >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-=20 >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHTtUImFeRJ0tjIxERAjx5AJ9SCkb/7MvK+UsLl1Y49khEVcKP2QCaAuQA 2QVAXA0wKbde60wKxF/AzEQ=3D =3DzrJs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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