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

[Dav Clark]

I didn't really think to try this.  But, all I needed to do was point  
ElasticFox at the manifest and everything went fine  (Thanks to Jeremy  
& ElasticFox!).  Thus, I'm pretty sure this is some issue which at  
least involves my API tools (ec2-register) and not the canonical image  
alone (though it could be the interaction of these two things).

It still seems that one _should_ be able to register an AMI derived  
from the canonical images with the command-line ec2-register script,  
and I don't know why I can't.  I think ElasticFox uses the http style  
access identifiers, and the java API tools use the RSA keys.  But  
again, my java tools are able to start instances and so forth... so  
I'm pretty sure I have that all configured properly.

I'm happy to help with debugging this situation, but I really have no  
idea where to start, and it doesn't cause me any problems... I'll just  
use ElasticFox in lieu of the Amazon API tools.  So, I likely won't  
pursue it on my own.

Thanks!
Dav

ps - Thanks also to Eric for the quick orientation on the AMI / API  
distinction.

On May 6, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Jeremy Edberg wrote:

> 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 BUG 1: ec2 tools on the canonical images are out of date / incomplete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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