[ec2-beta] Bundling image?

[Eric Hammond]

Darren:

You cannot use the bundle functionality in the AWS console to bundle
Linux instances; that particular bundling method only works with Windows
instances.

To bundle a running Linux instance, you will want to use the EC2 AMI
command line tools (ec2-bundle-vol, ec2-upload-bundle) to create and
upload a new image.  Then you'll use the EC2 API tool (ec2-register) or
another interface to register the uploaded bundle as a new AMI.

The Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide has a section on creating a new AMI
based on a running instance:

  http://ec2gsg-creating.notlong.com

The current official Ubuntu beta(1) AMI does not have the EC2 AMI tools
installed.  You can install a copy from the ubuntu-ec2 PPA:

  sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y --force-yes ec2-ami-tools

--
Eric Hammond
http://www.anvilon.com


Darren Govoni wrote:
> I'm new and jazzed too! Well, according to the programmers book, you can
> bundle and register a private AMI from your running image (linux in the
> example) and store it on S3 to spawn later. I followed those
> instructions on my Ubuntu EC2 beta 64 bit image and got this error:
> 
> Client.InvalidInstanceType: Instance i-3fb53756 does not support
> bundling.
> 
> When you say snapshot, do you mean you can spawn new instances of that
> snapshot?
> 
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 20:02 -0500, Fish Kungfu wrote:
>> I thought bundling was for Windows instances only.  I was able to make
>> a snapshot of my Ubuntu 8.10 instance as it was running.  I hope that
>> helps.  I'm brand new to this, it's got me really jazzed.  I hope
>> someone with more experience will chime in.
>>
>> ~~Fish~~
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Darren Govoni <darren at ontrenet.com>
>> wrote:
>>         Hi,
>>          Pardon if this was mentioned before on the list. My search
>>         turned up
>>         little. I tried to bundle my instance of the beta image (the
>>         64-bit
>>         large one)I am running, and the tool said it could not bundle
>>         the
>>         running image. Is it not possible with the betas? Or not at
>>         all?
>>         
>>         thanks for any tips.
>>         Darren
>>         
>>         
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