[Fedora-xen] problems with using xen-get.org images in fc5

[Henning Sprang]

Hi,

Henning Sprang wrote:
> [...]
> When trying to start the vm, I get the error:
> "Error: Error creating domain: Kernel image does not exist: 
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5xenU"

I further investigated that.
Fedora seems to require to explicitly set the bootloader to pygrub in 
the domU config.

When doing so, I get the error:

[root at localhost ~]# xm create -c basic-debian
Using config file "/etc/xen/basic-debian".
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 256, in ?
     cf = get_config(file, isconfig)
   File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 119, in get_config
     fs = fstype.open_fs(fn, offset)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/grub/fsys/ext2/__init__.py", 
line 35, in open_fs
     return Ext2Fs(fn, offset = offset)
ValueError: unable to open file
Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!


Which seems to be further described here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00721.html

But I cannot find a solution. Does that mean I cannot use xen images 
created in block devices the "normal" way all howto's about xen describe?

What Do I have to do to create a xen domU manually, or use a xen disk 
image created on another machine/distribution on Fedora?

Why is Fedora not able to recognize the kernel variable in the config 
file correctly as it is usually done on other distributions?


Henning