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

[Matt Pounsett]

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I'm trying to get FreeBSD running under Xen on a RedHat RHEL5 box.  I  
seem to be stumped really early in the process by something...  
strange.  I don't have a good explanation for it, other than Xen  
doing something weird, and thought I'd ask if anyone else had seen  
something similar.  All the information I've found googling this  
error relates to users forgetting to install key packages, which  
doesn't seem to be related here.

Basically, I'm following the directions at http://www.yuanjue.net/xen/ 
howto.html.  When I hit step 4, and try to run "xm create", xen  
complains:

# 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

I'm using the config file suggested by the instructions with only 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 (I  
also tried without this change)

Am I missing something here?  Looks to me like either Xen is trying  
to chroot somewhere before loading the kernel (don't see anything  
relevant in the config file I downloaded) or something is broken  
somewhere.

Has this been seen before, or does anyone have suggestions about  
where to check for the error?

Matt


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