Installing Xen Hypervisor Does Not Add Boot Menu Entry

I installed the hypervisor from YaST -> Virtualization -> Install Hypervisor and Tools. It apparently installed Xen with no error messages, instructed me to reboot and select Xen kernel from menu.

But there is no Xen entry in the boot menu... Is this a bug?

Also, how do I add such an entry manually? Can I simply clone default OpenSuSE 11 Beta 3 menu entry and just replace vmlinuz with vmlinuz-xen?

I installed the hypervisor from YaST -> Virtualization -> Install Hypervisor and Tools. It apparently installed Xen with no error messages, instructed me to reboot and select Xen kernel from menu.

But there is no Xen entry in the boot menu... Is this a bug?

Also, how do I add such an entry manually? Can I simply clone default OpenSuSE 11 Beta 3 menu entry and just replace vmlinuz with vmlinuz-xen?
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Is the xen-kernel installed? Post the output of ' rpm -qa | grep xen ' if you will...

Cheers,
Wj

I think it is installed.

kernel-xen-2.6.25.4-2
ndiswrapper-kmp-xen-1.52_2.6.25.4_2-26
xen-libs-3.2.1_16881_01-11
xen-tools-3.2.1_16881_01-11
xen-3.2.1_16881_01-11
uvcvideo-kmp-xen-r200_2.6.25.4_2-2

I think it is installed.

kernel-xen-2.6.25.4-2
ndiswrapper-kmp-xen-1.52_2.6.25.4_2-26
xen-libs-3.2.1_16881_01-11
xen-tools-3.2.1_16881_01-11
xen-3.2.1_16881_01-11
uvcvideo-kmp-xen-r200_2.6.25.4_2-2

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Seems ok...

Try adding similar entry to the menu.1st

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
title Xen -- openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.4-2
****root (hd0,1)
****kernel /boot/xen.gz 
****module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-2-xen root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Hitachi_HTS7210_MPCD12Y4GL6BZE-part2 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts vga=0x314
****module /boot/initrd-2.6.25.4-2-xen

Yeah, I added this entry:

title OpenSuSE 11 Beta 3 Xen
****root (hd0,1)
****kernel /boot/xen.gz
****module /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317
****module /boot/initrd

Xen.gz, vmlinuz-xen and initrd are symlinks to appropriate files. It loads, but hangs waiting for /dev/sda2... /dev/sda2 boots normally with default kernel:

title OpenSuSE 11.0 Beta 3
****root (hd0,1)
****kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317
****initrd /boot/initrd

It also sports some fatal failure messages about missing /lib/modules/2.6.25.4-2-xen/modules.dep, but that file is present.... I tried to find a log where these messages would be stored, but I couldn't. Nothing in /var/log/messages nor boot.msg, nothing in /var/log/xen/ either. Where do I look for Xen boot messages?

Edit: I just realized the initrd symlink is wrong, it should be initrd-xen.... Lemme try again.

Yeah, I am missing initrd-2.6.25.4-2-xen.

Yeah, I am missing initrd-2.6.25.4-2-xen.
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I would suspect this is linked to the issues that occurred with the last kernel update (2.6.25.4). There is a fixed version under way so that might fix things for the xen bit too?

That's possible. Let's wait for the update and see. I could recreate initrd with mkinitrd when last kernel update borked it, but I have no idea how to do it or if I can do it at all for the Xen initrd.