Hi All,<br><br>I am trying to use fullyvirtualized guest direct kernel boot, but all I see is the following error:<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err &#39;Error creating domain: (2, \&#39;Invalid kernel\&#39;, &quot;elf_xen_note_check: ERROR: Not a Xen-ELF image: No ELF notes or \&#39;__xen_guest\&#39; section found.\\n&quot;)&#39;)<br>
<br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kernel, initrd and root file system are extracted from working Fedora 9 disk image without any additional tinkering. Guest Fedora is clean and was installed from scratch. Wh</span></span>en I use this whole disk image with fullyvirtualized guest BIOS boot<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> with, everything works fine. I also tried paravirtualized guest bootloader with another linux kernel and it also works fine. Xen version is 3.2.1-rc1-pre. Host OS is Ubuntu Hardy.</font><br>
</span><br>Here is the libvirt config for direct kernel boot:<br><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" size="2">&lt;domain type=&#39;xen&#39; id=&#39;18&#39;&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;name&gt;test1&lt;/name&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;uuid&gt;4dea22b31d52d8f32516782e98ab3fa0&lt;/uuid&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;os&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;type&gt;linux&lt;/type&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;loader&gt;/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader&lt;/loader&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;kernel&gt;/tmp/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686&lt;/kernel&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;initrd&gt;/tmp/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img&lt;/initrd&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;root&gt;/dev/sda1&lt;/root&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;cmdline&gt;ro&lt;/cmdline&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/os&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;memory&gt;524288&lt;/memory&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;vcpu&gt;1&lt;/vcpu&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;devices&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;emulator&gt;/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm&lt;/emulator&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;disk type=&#39;file&#39;&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;driver name=&quot;tap&quot; type=&quot;aio&quot;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;source file=&#39;/tmp/f9_disassembled/root.img&#39;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;target dev=&#39;sda1&#39;/&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/disk&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;disk type=&#39;file&#39;&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;driver name=&quot;tap&quot; type=&quot;aio&quot;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;source file=&#39;/tmp/swap&#39;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;target dev=&#39;sda3&#39;/&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/disk&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interface type=&#39;bridge&#39;&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;source bridge=&#39;eth0&#39;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;mac address=&#39;00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e&#39;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script path=&#39;/etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge&#39;/&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/interface&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;graphics type=&#39;vnc&#39; port=&#39;5904&#39;/&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/devices&gt;<br>&lt;/domain&gt;</font><br><br>What do you think can be the cause of this issue?<br><br>--<br>Thanks, Max<br>
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