[ec2-beta] Bundling image?

[Chuck Short]

Correct.

On 13:18 Mon 26 Jan     , Darren Govoni wrote:
> Thanks Eric!
> 
> And just want to confirm, when I bundle my own image and store it on my
> S3 account, its not public and no one else can use it, right?
> 
> Cheers!
> Darren
> 
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:16 -0800, Eric Hammond wrote:
> > 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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