1. I logged in as root . Root login has been activated - no "sudo" required. 2. /var/lib/dpkg just doesn't exist on image files . That is a reason. Report bellow clearly demonstrates , that image files haven' been built properly [root@ServerXen331 xen]# xm create -c xen.conf Using config file "./xen.conf". Started domain UbuntuPV [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00100000 [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x000000a0 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00002564 [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00002767 -> 0x00040000 [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs [ 0.000000] No local APIC present [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000002564000 - 0000000002767000 [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:c0000000) [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 64928 bytes of per cpu data [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 255716 [ 0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/xvda1 ro xencons=tty console=tty1 console=hvc0 [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 3005.554 MHz processor. [ 0.010000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 0.010000] console [tty0] enabled [ 0.010000] console [hvc0] enabled [ 0.010000] Checking aperture... [ 0.010000] No AGP bridge found [ 0.010000] Memory: 991212k/1048576k available (3110k kernel code, 54920k reserved, 1573k data, 536k init) [ 0.010000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [ 0.010000] installing Xen timer for CPU 0 [ 0.010000] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6011.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=30055540) [ 0.010000] Security Framework initialized [ 0.010000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 0.010000] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized [ 0.010000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.010000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.010000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 [ 0.010000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [ 0.010000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 0.010000] Initializing cgroup subsys memory [ 0.010000] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K [ 0.010000] CPU: L2 cache: 6144K [ 0.010000] CPU 0/0 -> Node 0 [ 0.010000] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 [ 0.010000] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 [ 0.010000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 0.014374] Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed [ 0.014420] cpu 0 spinlock event irq 1 [ 0.014480] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 0.014727] net_namespace: 1552 bytes [ 0.014734] Booting paravirtualized kernel on Xen [ 0.014737] Xen version: 3.3.1-rc4 (preserve-AD) [ 0.014835] Grant table initialized [ 0.034335] Time: 165:165:165 Date: 165/165/65 [ 0.034361] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.034584] PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found [ 0.034584] ACPI: Interpreter disabled. [ 0.034584] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 0.034584] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled [ 0.034584] xen_balloon: Initialising balloon driver. [ 0.034584] PCI: System does not support PCI [ 0.034584] PCI: System does not support PCI [ 0.070068] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 0.070075] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 0.070122] NetLabel: Initializing [ 0.070126] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 [ 0.070129] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 [ 0.070142] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default [ 0.070149] PCI-GART: No AMD northbridge found. [ 0.070468] tracer: 1286 pages allocated for 65536 entries of 80 bytes [ 0.070472] actual entries 65586 [ 0.070536] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled [ 0.070924] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.160120] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 0.160504] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) [ 0.161188] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 0.161453] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 0.161458] TCP reno registered [ 0.190066] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.190158] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 0.208794] Freeing initrd memory: 29364k freed [ 0.217739] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found) [ 0.218149] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 0.218165] type=2000 audit(1230490618.633:1): initialized [ 0.222253] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages [ 0.224743] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 0.224825] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.224927] msgmni has been set to 2105 [ 0.225034] io scheduler noop registered [ 0.225038] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 0.225041] io scheduler deadline registered (default) [ 0.225164] io scheduler cfq registered [ 0.252543] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [ 0.252552] Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 0.254313] brd: module loaded [ 0.254376] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0 [ 0.254533] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. [ 0.255354] i8042.c: No controller found. [ 0.270778] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 0.270831] rtc_cmos: probe of rtc_cmos failed with error -16 [ 0.270905] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 0.270909] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 0.271156] TCP cubic registered [ 0.271172] IO APIC resources could be not be allocated. [ 0.271335] registered taskstats version 1 [ 0.271346] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51713 [ 0.271349] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51714 [ 0.271353] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/51715 [ 0.271356] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 [ 0.271359] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0 [ 0.271370] Magic number: 1:252:3141 [ 0.271447] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.27/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) [ 0.271453] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found [ 0.271456] EDD information not available. [ 0.271472] Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed [ 0.271602] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 4344k Loading, please wait... Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Begin: Loading essential drivers... ... [ 0.335427] fuse init (API version 7.9) [ 0.390927] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit [ 0.401349] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [ 0.401506] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.14.0-ioctl (2008-04-23) initialised: