I found these additional debug options in a post about debugging Xen efi, debug ignore_loglevel log_buf_len=10M print_fatal_signals=1 LOGLEVEL=8 earlyprintk=efi,keep sched_debug and added that to the command line in my custom.cfg. I launched the guest with "xl create -c" instead of sdl=1, and was able to get a lot more boot-detail from the Guest in my host console: http://pastebin.com/cFGHFi97 I'm at my limit for now re: what additional info I can randomly figure out to get out of this.