Comments on: Create EBS Boot AMI

By: Artur

Artur — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:33:52 +0000

Nice one. You should add a note that after cooking up AMI you can remove volume but you need to keep a snapshot you used.

By: rodney

rodney — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:10:12 +0000

FreeMind and narender:

This script dont work with Windows AMI.
You need to use the existing EBS boot Windows AMI and bundle it from the AWS management console or Elasticfox.

By: FreeMind

FreeMind — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:08:27 +0000

Hi,

This was really useful.

I am trying to use a bootable windows ebs volume but I am not able to figure out how to point the boot ami to the windows ebs volume.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

By: narender

narender — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:15:38 +0000

hey,
Do you have steps for converting existing instance based AMI to EBS based for Windows platform.

TIA,

By: rodney

rodney — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:25:09 +0000

cloudsuser,

Please check this link, this might help:

http://alestic.com/2009/08/ec2-connectivity

By: cloudsuser

cloudsuser — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:23:01 +0000

Nice tutorial. Its strange for me unable to do ssh. The instance created using EBS image is up, but unable to login.

By: rodney

rodney — Sat, 01 May 2010 10:27:37 +0000

Munts,

Thanks for visiting my site.
Glad to hear you got it working.

By: Munts

Munts — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:30:23 +0000

Oh and it took me ages to work out how to get the right certs (download the 2 X.509 certs cert-xxx…pem and pk-xxx…pem) from amazon accounts page and then even longer to figure out how to upload them to the server.

Eventually found some software called winscp which runs over ssh and worked like a treat for uploading the certs to the right place ready for the ec2-register command.

Sure would be a bit easier if the amazon folk integrated register function into the AWS mgmt web interface sigh.

For all the linux old hands out there this stuff must be a piece of cake – for us noobs its like pulling teeth.

By: Munts

Munts — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:18:59 +0000

well i tried cloudyscripts, plus several other sites then came back to this one. Eventually got my head around linux and managed to get it working. thanks!

here are my notes:

# Setup new repo, update and install latest e2c tools:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-on-ec2/ec2-tools

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools ec2-ami-tools

# Next up, we’ll set some paths in bash profile so the OS knows where the EC2 tools are located.

sudo vim ~/.bash_profile

# Add these lines, replacing “YOURKEYNAME” with the actual file name of your private and public keys, then save.

export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/home/ubuntu/pk-“YOURKEYNAME”.pem
export EC2_CERT=/home/ubuntu/cert-“YOURKEYNAME”.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/

# To get the changes noticed by the OS immediately, run source.

source ~/.bash_profile

# To test the tools, run the following from a new terminal:

ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon

# You should receive a list of all the publicly available EC2 images published by Amazon.
# Now to register as new EBS Boot AMI:

ec2-register –snapshot “YOURSNAPSHOT” –description “EBS TEST Ubuntu” –name “ebs-ubuntu-i386-server” –architecture i386 –root-device-name /dev/sda1

# It should return your new AMI number, go into AWS web console to take a look and launch as new instance!

By: Migrating a Linux S3 Based AMI to an EBS Based AMI « すでにそこにある雲

Migrating a Linux S3 Based AMI to an EBS Based AMI « すでにそこにある雲 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:49:45 +0000

[...] Create EBS Boot AMI – 私はこれが好き [...]