Unable to boot a Xen guest kernel

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 11:00 -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> For some reason, I cannot boot a Xen guest kernel which I built.
> "xm create" ends with:
> Error: Error creating domain: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> 
> I downloaded a Rawhide kernel rpm (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5), ran rpmbuild -bp,
> then took rpms/BUILD/kernel-2.6.15/linux-2.6.15, copied
> configs/kernel-2.6.15-i686-xenU-PAE.config, built the kernel
> with "make oldconfig && make". The result, apparently, is the
> vmlinuz in the root directory.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what I am missing here?

You have to be using a PAE hypervisor if you're using a PAE kernel.

Yes, this sucks.

Jeremy