[ec2-beta] EC2 AMI and API Tools

[Jason Smith]

Gordon Tillman wrote:
> Howdy Micah,
> 
> You had asked:
> 
>> This may be a silly question but do these AMIs contain the EC2 AMI and
>> API tools? And if so, where are they installed?
> 
> If so I didn't find them.  I had to install the AMI tools so I could  
> bundle a new image.  I know the Alestic images did include the AMI  
> tools and that sure was convenient! :-)

Yes, I was recently bitten by this too.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong, but) I believe that there are two problems:

1. ami-tools (even from the deb repo) is out of date and does not set 
some ACL or another correctly to enable AMI registration

2. api-tools, needed for the ec2-register command, are not included in 
the base image at all.

Having installed Java and then upgrading both tool sets from Amazon 
manually, I was finally able to create an AMI based on the beta2 system.

Hope that helps!

-- 
Jason Smith
Proven Corporation
Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.proven-corporation.com