Hi, I''m trying to run FreeBSD as a guest on a Xen system. Dom0 is running. It is an Intel E6600 system with VT support (64bit also). I get the following errors: belle:/vms# cat /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log ERROR: Not a Xen-ELF image: No ELF notes or ''__xen_guest'' section found. ERROR: Error constructing guest OS [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) XendDomainInfo.create([''vm'', [''name'', ''freebsd-xen-INSTALL''], [''memory'', 256], [''vcpus'', 1], [''image'', [''linux'', [''kernel'', ''/vms/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL''], [''args'', ''boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0,kern.hz=100'']]], [''device'', [''vbd'', [''uname'', ''file:/vms/freebsd_xen_INSTALL.img''], [''dev'', ''hda1''], [''mode'', ''w'']]], [''device'', [''vif'']]]) [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) parseConfig: config is [''vm'', [''name'', ''freebsd-xen-INSTALL''], [''memory'', 256], [''vcpus'', 1], [''image'', [''linux'', [''kernel'', ''/vms/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL''], [''args'', ''boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0,kern.hz=100'']]], [''device'', [''vbd'', [''uname'', ''file:/vms/freebsd_xen_INSTALL.img''], [''dev'', ''hda1''], [''mode'', ''w'']]], [''device'', [''vif'']]] [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) parseConfig: result is {''shadow_memory'': None, ''uuid'': None, ''on_crash'': None, ''on_reboot'': None, ''localtime'': None, ''image'': [''linux'', [''kernel'', ''/vms/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL''], [''args'', ''boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0,kern.hz=100'']], ''on_poweroff'': None, ''bootloader_args'': None, ''cpus'': None, ''name'': ''freebsd-xen-INSTALL'', ''backend'': [], ''vcpus'': 1, ''cpu_weight'': None, ''features'': None, ''vcpu_avail'': None, ''memory'': 256, ''device'': [(''vbd'', [''vbd'', [''uname'', ''file:/vms/freebsd_xen_INSTALL.img''], [''dev'', ''hda1''], [''mode'', ''w'']]), (''vif'', [''vif''])], ''bootloader'': None, ''cpu'': None, ''maxmem'': None} [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) XendDomainInfo.construct: None [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 11 1.0 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) Balloon: 263028 KiB free; need 262144; done. [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] INFO (__init__:1072) buildDomain os=linux dom=11 vcpus=1 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) dom = 11 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) image = /vms/freebsd-XENU_INSTALL [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) store_evtchn = 1 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) console_evtchn = 2 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) cmdline = boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0,kern.hz=100 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) ramdisk [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) vcpus = 1 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) features [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] ERROR (__init__:1072) Domain construction failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 195, in create vm.initDomain() File "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 1363, in initDomain raise VmError(str(exn)) VmError: (22, ''Invalid argument'') [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) XendDomainInfo.destroy: domid=11 [2007-06-05 15:30:34 xend.XendDomainInfo 3117] DEBUG (__init__:1072) XendDomainInfo.destroyDomain(11) while it really is a valid elf image: belle:/vms# file freebsd-XENU_INSTALL freebsd-XENU_INSTALL: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped anyone got a suggestion? the freebsd-XENU_INSTALL is the kernel from /boot/kernel/kernel from a FreeBSD boot-cd Folkert van Heusden MultiTail is a versatile tool for watching logfiles and output of commands. Filtering, coloring, merging, diff-view, etc. http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users