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Running debian lenny as a pv domu guest on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and later XVM host.

1. Build an HVM lenny guest and install debootstrap.
2. Create zfs vols for the pv guest.
3. Attach the destination vol to the HVM guest (then reboot to take effect):
 osol $ pfexec virsh attach-disk lenny-hvm /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/xvm/lenny-01-xvba hdb
4. In the HVM guest, partition the disk and format a root partition. Mount it at /mnt.
 hvm # deboostrap lenny /mnt
5. Prepare /mnt for boot:
 hvm # cp /etc/apt/sources.list /mnt/etc/apt/
 hvm # chroot /mnt
 hvm # export LANG=C
 hvm # apt-get update
 hvm # mkdir -p /boot/grub
 hvm # apt-get install grub linux-image-xen-amd64
 hvm # cat > /etc/fstab <<> /dev/xvda1      /        ext3       defaults,noatime   0    1
/dev/xvda2      none     swap       default   0    0
proc            /proc    proc       default   0    1
EOF
 hvm # update-rc.d -f hwclockfirst remove
 hvm # update-rc.d -f hwclock remove
 hvm # cat >/etc/network/interfaces <<> auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
EOF
 hvm # echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" > /etc/hosts
 hvm # echo "lenny-01" > /etc/hostname
6. Edit /etc/inittab to include ONLY these two getty lines (thanks http://wiki.debian.org/Xen)
 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 hvc0
 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
7. Edit /etc/default/rcS to set UTC=no
8. Copy the kernel and initrd onto the dom0 host.
9. Shutdown the hvm guest.
10. Remove the zfs vol
 osol $ pfexec virsh detach-disk lenny-hvm hdb
11. Create an xml conf file config.xml like http://gist.github.com/262825
12. Input into the xen db
 osol $ pfexec virsh define etch-01

Resources
http://blog.adventuresinopensolaris.com/2008/07/xvm-pv-of-debian-distros.html
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=62436&tstart=60
http://wiki.debian.org/Xen
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+xen/