[ec2] kernel problem on EU instance

[ehammond at thinksome.com]

Baldur:

My current impression is that vmbuilder is not quite ready for the
public to build EC2 images but that the team is busy getting it into a
good state.  What version/branch of vmbuilder are you using?

If aki-a17493c8 exists, I don't have access to it.  You may have an old
(or new?) copy of vmbuilder.

The theoretically optimal kernel/ramdisk would be the ones used by the
Ubuntu AMI you want to emulate.

For the current US Ubuntu 8.05 Hardy built by Canonical, this would be
the aki- and ari- ids listed here:

$ ec2-describe-images ami-5d59be34
IMAGE	ami-5d59be34
canonical-cloud-us/ubuntu-hardy-20090422-i386.manifest.xml
099720109477	available	public		i386	machine	aki-6e709707	ari-6c709705

You could use a similar command to get the EU images.

-- 
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> My goal is to make an image for the EU region. I only accidently
> uploaded the image to the US region.
> 
> The image for that worked on the US region was a 9.04. But I really
> wanted to make an 8.04 LTS image so aki-a17493c8 is what you get when
> you specify 8.04.
> 
> How do I find good kernels and ramdisks to specify with the --ec2-kernel
> and --ec2-ramdisk option?
> 
> Thanks for the help (also thanks to Chuck for replying)
> 
> Baldur
> 
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM, <ehammond at thinksome.com
> <mailto:ehammond at thinksome.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Baldur:
> 
>     EC2 uses different kernels in each region, so you'll need to specify the
>     correct kernel and ramdisk for the eu-west-1 region.
> 
>     Using vmbuilder, this can be done with the --ec2-kernel and
>     --ec2-ramdisk options.  Make sure you use a matching kernel/ramdisk
>     pair.
> 
>     If you don't specify a kernel/ramdisk, it looks like vmbuilder defaults
>     to ones appropriate for the us-east-1 region.  Perhaps this could be
>     enhanced to look at the target region for the image.
> 
>     Hm, on second glance, it looks like vmbuilder doesn't support a
>     --ec2-region option yet.
> 
>     Are you trying to directly target the EU region or are you migrating an
>     image from US to EU?
> 
>     BTW, I don't see aki-a17493c8 even on the us-east-1 region.  What Ubuntu
>     release are you trying to build?
> 
>     --
>     Eric Hammond
>     ehammond at thinksome.com <mailto:ehammond at thinksome.com>
> 
> 
> 
>     Baldur Norddahl wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > I am trying to use vmbuilder to deploy on the Amazon EU servers. It
>     > works fine on the US server but I get this on the EU server:
>     >
>     > Invalid or unaccessible kernel id in ami manifest: aki-a17493c8
>     >
>     > How do I fix this?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Baldur