diff --git a/lib/constants.py b/lib/constants.py
index 3594d066d81038b4aab52936cdfb54a75cb79b09..47d754881753a7f1c17b4a68204bbe66fc196366 100644
--- a/lib/constants.py
+++ b/lib/constants.py
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ HVC_DEFAULTS = {
     HV_USE_BOOTLOADER: False,
     HV_BOOTLOADER_PATH: XEN_BOOTLOADER,
     HV_BOOTLOADER_ARGS: "",
-    HV_KERNEL_PATH: "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU",
+    HV_KERNEL_PATH: XEN_KERNEL,
     HV_INITRD_PATH: "",
     HV_ROOT_PATH: "/dev/sda1",
     HV_KERNEL_ARGS: "ro",