On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 11:49:41AM -0800, Christopher Hunt wrote: > First let me say that I'm not a sysadmin, but am simply wearing that hat > this week so please excuse my ignorance. I need to temporarily move some > virtual servers from a CentOS-KVM platform to a CentOS-XEN platform while > I do some upgrades to the CentOS box. I've created a local LV, and used > DD and SCP to transfer the block device from the VKM machine to the XEN > machine. For quite a while I struggled with the "Error: (2, 'Invalid > kernel', 'xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab\n')" error > but thanks to Nick Couchman from > [1]http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-03/msg00603.html, > I've passed that. Now I'm stuck with a kernel panic situation. > Unfortunately the kernel panic error doesn't appear using "xm console" and > flashes so quickly through "virt-viewer" that I can't get any details. > Stop the guest and edit /etc/xen/<guest> cfgfile. Remove (or comment out) the vfb line, and then restart the guest. Now you get the full console output to "xm console". -- Pasi