I did try booting with their in-house versioin 3.18.5 kernel instead. That works. I can boot completely and access the system like with the Opensuse old, original release kernel. AFAICT they don't have a 3.19 kernel option to try.
Linode have now released a 3.19.1 kernel https://www.linode.com/kernels/ If I use that instead of pvgrub to the Opensuse 3.19.x kernel the Guest boots normally uname -r 3.19.1-x86_64-linode53 ------------------------------------------------- VFEmail.net - http://www.vfemail.net ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+owner@opensuse.org