a) Creates a whole disk image vs the weird partition only type of thing that ec2 expects. Âec2-converter tries to then convert the image after the fact, but is in serious need of love
b) Doesn't really know about the fact that you can boot custom kernels via pvgrub now. ÂThis opens up whole new worlds (yay not running the Fedora 8 kernel!) but you actually have to know about it to set up the initrd and grub correctly
appliance-creator is perfect for the case that you want to have a disk image that you can load into virt-manager, vmware or the like. ÂThere are just different needs.
The beauty is that the same kickstart config can get used for appliance-creator, livecd-tools, ami-creator and also to install to your actual physical hardware. Â
- Jeremy
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Jay Greguske <jgregusk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How is this different from appliance-tools? Can this do anything
appliance-tools can't with the right ks file?
- Jay
On 12/13/2010 09:34 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Hey everyone --
>
> After fighting with too many different tools where none of them acted
> like I wanted last week, I've gone ahead and put together a simple app
> that uses all of the python-imgcreate stuff[1] to generate an image
> that's usable for an AMI in EC2. ÂVery simple: kickstart file in, disk
> image out. ÂI still need to put in the pieces to auto-bundle and upload
> the image if desired, but at this point, it's already very useful to me
> at least. ÂIf others find it useful, I can take the next steps of
> packaging it up for Fedora, etc.
>
> git repo at
> http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=katzj/public_git/ami-creator.git and
> announcement blog post at
> http://velohacker.com/fedora-notes/announcing-ami-creator/.
>
> - Jeremy
>
> [1] Same base pieces as livecd-creator and lives in the same source repo.
>
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