[ec2-beta] EC2 tools in most recent official Ubuntu AMIs

[Jeremy Edberg]

This may not directly solve your problem, but I've found it much
easier to deal with image registration using a combination of the AWS
console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home) and the ElasticFox
extension for Firefox
(http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609)

You may want to give those a shot.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 14:43, Dav Clark <dav at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to bundle an image with a variety of specialized (painful /
> slow to install) software for brain imaging research.
>
> I tried creating and uploading a bundle using the instructions here:
>
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStartedGuide/index.html?creating-an-image.html
>
> This was based on the most recent canonical 32-bit 8.10 / intrepid
> images (ami-5059be39, aka canonical-cloud-us/ubuntu-intrepid-20090422-
> i386.manifest.xml).
>
> Creating the image and uploading the bundle appeared to go fine.
> However, there was nothing like an ec2-register command.  No problem,
> I thought, I'll just use the ec2 tools on my machine in lab.  But still,
>
> BUG 1: ec2 tools on the canonical images are out of date / incomplete
>
> Note - they are using the ruby versions... I don't know if the lack of
> ec2-register is a ruby thing or what.  ec2-ami-tools-version on the
> canonical image yields:
>
> 1.3-31057 20071010
>
> Moving along...
>
> There appears to be some sort of strange permission problem using ec2-
> register from my home machine.  With the permissions left as they
> were, I get a 403 error trying to access my manifest.  But I don't
> understand why:
>
>  - I am absolutely sure I used the same pk and cert files (I uploaded
> them from the machine in lab that I'm now trying to use the ec2-
> register command from)
>  - I updated to the most recent EC2 tools (1.3-34128 2009-03-01), and
> also tried 1.3-30349
>  - i am able to launch ec2 instances, for example, with no problem
>  - za-team has read access to everything, my account has full access
> to everything
>  - If I make everything readable to "authenticated users" I get the
> following 404:
>
> Client.InvalidManifest: HTTP 404 (Not Found) response for URL http://s3.amazonaws.com:80/cognac-public/CognAcAMI.manifext.xml
> : check your manifest path is correct and in the correct region.
>
> I also was able to find a link in an amazon developer forum to the
> 31057 version of the tools.  But, there is no mention of these tools
> on the amazon website:
>
> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=87
>
> I think I am missing something fundamental here... is there some old
> way of booting an AMI that I don't know about?  The old docs on
> bundling seem to have evaporated...
>
> Thanks!
> Dav
>
>
>
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