I ended up figuring it out on my own.Figured since I couldn’t find anything on line about it I’d post someinfo for anyone else who might be trying to do the same.

Icopied the kernel and ramdisk from the image that I had downloadedearlier. and placed it on the host OS in /boot/xen/

Here is my.cfg for xen:

I switched tap:aio: to file:

kernel= “/boot/xen/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen”
#ramdisk =”/boot/xen/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen.img”
ramdisk =”/home/kylec/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen-no-scsi.img”
name= “ami”
memory = “1024″
disk = ['file:/xen/image,xvda1,w','file:/etc/xen/XenGuest1.swap,xvda2,w']
root = “/dev/xvda1ro”
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0', ]
vcpus=2
on_reboot =’destroy’
on_crash = ‘destroy’

Now since this is CentOS…the ramdisk was not working for reasons that had to do with SCSIdrivers so I built the ramdisk without. The fix ended up being thefollowing. and using that instead in the xen .cfg.

mkinitrd–omit-scsi-modules –with=xennet –with=xenblk –preload=xenblkinitrd-$(uname -r)-no-scsi.img $(uname -r)

I created the swap file

then just started normally, xm create/etc/ami.cfg -c

Right where you leave off with grabbing the kernel image, and ramdisk from the AMI image. and then creating the xen .cfg, if you could possibly go more into detail or an example with that last part it would be awesome, right where I’m having issues.

Also remapping the file system so that it can boot. If you could shoot me an email I’d really appreciate it.