I still can't figure this out.

What I am trying to accomplish, is to run a linux-based firewall (currently 
looking at smoothwall) connected to a set of VLAN-s.  My smoothwall-host 
currently has no network connectivity and no gcc, trying to compile anything on 
this seems like a difficult venture.  Smoothwall runs on 2.6.16.

The options I am looking at for getting further:
1. booting my smoothwall-image with a pv-kernel
2. adding a pv-over-hvm network driver to the smoothwall image

To be able to compile either a new pv-kernel or pv network drivers, I have 
tried installing another linux with some more tools available.

I have tried installing debian lenny according to this description:
http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#DomU.28guest.29

as far as I know, this i linux kernel 2.6.26 with pvops-support.  Xen is unable 
to load the kernel:
xc_dom_find_loader: trying ELF-generic loader ... failed
xc_dom_find_loader: trying multiboot-binary loader ... failed
xc_dom_core.c:495: panic: xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found

according til 'file', the kernel-image is of type:
Linux kernel x86 boot executable RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x6803, swap_dev 0x1, 
Normal VGA


Some questions I haven't been able to find answers to through google:
 - do I need a special version of xen to support pvops?
 - does the one in solaris xVM support pvops?
 - what should be the file-type of the kernel-image for xen to be able to load 
it?  (I thought i would have to be ELF, but the netboot/xen-image from debian 
is "x86 boot executable" for all available debian-releases)
 - how can I get files in to my smoothwall image without network?  (My guess 
would be to create a file-based block-device with some file-system supported 
both by solaris and smoothwall, and loopback-mount it in Dom0 to fill it with 
data, iso and vfat seems to be my only options)
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