diff --git a/lib/constants.py b/lib/constants.py
index 2c05be4e9641b2d470e553aa567620a324822215..ca0c38f10ee8f6ae7fd8c81861a24182e3896752 100644
--- a/lib/constants.py
+++ b/lib/constants.py
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ HVC_DEFAULTS = {
         HV_PAE: True,
         },
     HT_KVM: {
-        HV_KERNEL_PATH: "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xenU",
+        HV_KERNEL_PATH: "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-kvmU",
         HV_INITRD_PATH: None,
         HV_ACPI: True,
         },