fyi, summary on the same Xen 4.7 -> 4.8 upgraded Dom0 host for all GUESTS edit guestXXX.cfg - bios_override = ... + bios_path_override = '/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64.bin' enter Guest chroot mkinitrd -v (or distro equiv) exit chroot `xl create` Guest testing, 1 each, of previous Ubuntu Debian Centos Arch PVHVM guests; all boot successfully all opensuse PVHVM guests FAIL for all opensuse GUESTS enter Guest chroot add changes^ to dracut.conf.d/99-xen-domu.conf mkinitrd -vA exit chroot `xl create` Guest all opensuse guests boot successfully