Hi all, On 2010-02-02, at 04:11, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > My $0.02: seems like thincrust might be a good place to start. Red Hat > folks have been working on it for a while, and I've liked my initial > experiences with it. It's dead easy to go from kickstart file to virtual > image, and they've also got a tool called ec2-converter that allegedly > sets up AMI images that are ready for upload. Maybe the place to start is > to take a current spin and walk down the path of turning it into an AMI, > and see how far we get. (Copying Joey Boggs, who is the maintainer of > ec2-converter: any advice? Gotchas?) I was using ec2-converter earlier but it doesn't work now (for example no support for x86_64). We're at JBoss are creating a tool called BoxGrinder. http://www.jboss.org/stormgrind/projects/boxgrinder.html Documentation: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/StormGrindBoxGrinderDocumentation We fixed all ec2-converter problems. More, we're creating appliances from simpler files (still utilizing appliance-creator from Thincrust): http://community.jboss.org/wiki/StormGrindApplianceDefinitionFile Building an appliance is as simple as executing: rake appliance:httpd:ec2 You can also upload it to your bucket and register with your AWS account: rake appliance:httpd:ec2:register We're hanging in #stormgrind on freenode if you have any questions. Of course we're not packaged in Fedora... > > The goal should be to have a handful of F13 AMIs very shortly after the > F13 release. Great! I'm really interested in this! --Marek
