It looks like people are finding this post and sending me requests for the
solution, so I thought I would post it back for posterity.  Sorry if I
didn't respond to your email, btw, I didn't notice a lot of these come in.

In the KVM, attach the debian ISO to the CD drive.  create a disk image
with a couple megs in disk utility, and mount it.

pull down drivers from a working x64 box of the same kernel version as the
installer:

(right now, <sys> is 2.6.32-5-amd64):

in /lib/modules/<sys>/drivers/scsi
libfc/libfc.ko
fnic/fnic.ko

put them in the disk image.

attach the disk image in the KVM manager alongside the ISO for debian
install, and run the installer until it gets to the part where it wants to
partition your disk.  you'll see the boot LUN disk is not listed (it only
lists your disk image).  hit Go Back and you'll go to the menu.

go to a terminal session in the installer (start a shell session)

mount the disk image (mount /dev/sda /mnt)  (you may need to specify VFAT
if you do this via Windows)

copy the kernel modules into place:

cd /lib/modules/<sys>/drivers/scsi
mkdir libfc
mkdir fnic
cp /mnt/fnic.ko fnic/
cp /mnt/libfc.ko libfc/

Load modules

depmod -a

modprobe libfc
modprobe fnic

exit terminal, go back to detect disks stage.  you can continue normally
from there.  When GRUB wants to set up the master boot record, say no.
 Then, tell it to install to /dev/sdc.  Then life will be kosher.

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