Installing openSUSE 15.4 as a PV Xen Guest (DomU) on Debian 11 - cannot find kernel to link in xen-tools configuration

we are currently trying to set up a virtualized environment in which we would like to use openSUSE 15.4 Leap as a Xen Guest (DomU) on a Debian 11 Host. To do so I have found some resources which adress the matter, but may be a little bit dated: - How to install a openSuSE domU on a Debian dom0 - Building an RPM based (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS) Xen Guest Root Filesystem using Rinse My configuration file looks like this currently: # # Configuration file for the Xen instance test2, created manually # # # # Kernel + memory size # kernel = '/opensuse-15.4/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.33-default' ramdisk = '/bootfiles/initrd' vcpus = '4' memory = '16384' # # Disk device(s). # root = '/dev/xvda2 ro' disk = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/testsuserpm/disk.img,xvda2,w', 'file:/home/xen/domains/testsuserpm/swap.img,xvda1,w', ] # # Hostname # name = 'testsuserpm' # # Networking # dhcp = 'dhcp' vif = [ 'mac=,bridge=xenbr0' ] # # Behaviour # on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' I got the kernel file by converting the .rpm package into a .deb package and installing the file into some folder to perform a Direct Kernel Boot . As for the installation I used rinse based on the following HowTo and put it onto the disk image that is linked within the config file. However upon trying to start the vm I get the following error message: > Parsing config from /etc/xen/testsuserpm.cfg ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:8: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:9: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:10: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:11: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:15: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:16: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:17: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:18: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:19: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:23: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:27: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:28: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:32: config parsing error near ` ': lexical > errorerpm.cfg:33: config parsing error near ` Failed to parse config: > Invalid argument I am guessing installing a .rpm based package on Debian just like that is not possible. Is there anything I could do to make this work? Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Chris