Hi Scott, My apologies, I meant Lucid instead of Hardy(I was discussing something about hardy at the time and my mind messed up) so a Lucid HVM is exactly what I'm looking forward to, it's kind of sad to know HVM are restricted, I will ask EC2 support to see if I can be able to create HVM images, in the meantime I'm really happy and grateful that you will be releasing a daily Lucid HVM, really, thank you! if there's something I can help with please let me know. Sincerely, -- Gerard <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Scott Moser <<a href="mailto:smoser@ubuntu.com">smoser@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Gerardo Fontes wrote: > Hi, > > I would like post access to this list and plan to collaborate for an ec2 > cluster compute instance for hardy. </div>Hi, I had agreed with Ahmed to turn on the cluster compute instance builds for lucid as a sniff test. If the un-tested build doesn't fail there might be a daily Lucid HVM instance type tomorrow sometime. Hardy, though, is much older, and many, many things weren't so well worked out in our build and release process on EC2. It would be more difficult to make a Hardy cluster compute instance. So I would really like to avoid doing so and supporting hardy on cluster compute. As I understand it, Amazon limits creation of "new" HVM images to privileged accounts (of which 'Canonical' has one), so you can't do the same process as we do. That said, with the presence of a lucid cluster compute instance you may be able to basically do a downgrade to hardy, or potentially a switch of the root volume on an existing instance. There is more infomatoin about HVM instances at <a href="http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_cluster_computing.html" target="_blank">http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_cluster_computing.html</a> You'll have to be creative, but I do think that a hardy HVM instance *could* be created, but you might end up wanting to use a newer kernel. Scott </blockquote></div>