Thanks for the suggestion, but no luck. It failed with permissions issues. Odd since I'm running as root on the boxgrinder EC2 appliance. Also, it seems to be grabbing the F15 kernels. cat f16.appl name: f16 os: name: fedora version: 16 boxgrinder-build f16.appl -p ec2 -d ebs I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.170950 #19829] INFO -- : Validating appliance definition from f16.appl file... I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.173858 #19829] INFO -- : Appliance definition is valid. I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.219834 #19829] INFO -- : Building 'f16' appliance for i686 architecture. I, [2011-12-12T12:39:34.226844 #19829] INFO -- : Resolving packages added to f16 appliance definition file... I, [2011-12-12T12:39:41.109246 #19829] INFO -- : All additional packages for f16 appliance successfully resolved. I, [2011-12-12T12:39:41.109595 #19829] INFO -- : Building f16 appliance... supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = i686, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null) supermin helper [00001ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE is a directory picked vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE because modpath /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.PAE exists checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.41.4-1.fc15.i686.PAE is a directory picked vmlinuz-2.6.41.4-1.fc15.i686.PAE because modpath /lib/modules/2.6.41.4-1.fc15.i686.PAE exists supermin helper [00024ms] finished creating kernel supermin helper [00025ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d supermin helper [00476ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img supermin helper [00987ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img supermin helper [01007ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles supermin helper [06003ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img supermin helper [12993ms] finished creating appliance I, [2011-12-12T13:29:30.645307 #19829] INFO -- : Executing post operations after build... I, [2011-12-12T13:33:31.819301 #19829] INFO -- : Base image for f16 appliance was built successfully. F, [2011-12-12T13:33:32.802477 #19829] FATAL -- : Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted - /root/build/appliances/i686/fedora/16/fedora-16-i386-ec2/1.0/fedora-plugin/tmp/imgcreate-62qmYe/install_root/proc/sys /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1231:in `chown' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1231:in `chown' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:967:in `chown_R' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1331:in `traverse' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:965:in `chown_R' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:964:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:964:in `chown_R' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:144:in `execute_plugin' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:105:in `execute_plugin_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:105:in `each' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:105:in `execute_plugin_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/lib/boxgrinder-build/appliance.rb:120:in `create' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/boxgrinder-build-0.9.8/bin/boxgrinder-build:189 /usr/bin/boxgrinder-build:19:in `load' /usr/bin/boxgrinder-build:19 Thanks, sean On 12/12/2011 11:17 AM, Marek Goldmann wrote: > Yes, we should make the page more clear about what process was used to get the official ones vs. what you can do with BoxGrinder. > > Sean, everything on that page is up to date. You just need to create your own appliance definition. Here you have a sample for Fedora 16 JEOS (save it as f16.appl): > > name: f16 > os: > name: fedora > version: 16 > > More details here: > > http://boxgrinder.org/tutorials/appliance-definition/ > > Then build it by executing boxgrinder-build f16.appl -p ec2 -d ebs. If you have troubles, please tell me. > > --Marek > > On 12 gru 2011, at 17:03, sean darcy wrote: >> >> Thanks for the responses. I would suggest that >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG/EC2_Creation be either >> corrected or taken down. >> >> Is there another, more recent, step-by-step description of how to build >> a fedora EC2 ebs-backed ami? For instance, are there F16 appl files >> available? >> >> sean >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cloud mailing list >> cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
