[CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Shade
Sorry for not replying to this earlier, I just saw this thread because of the newsletter. We have had CentOS Images running in the cloud since 09/06/2007, and there have had a public script out for it, you can check us out in the Amazon catalog here:

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-06-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Richard, On 06/03/2009 08:11 PM, Richard Shade wrote: Sorry for not replying to this earlier, I just saw this thread because of the newsletter. We have had CentOS Images running in the cloud since 09/06/2007, When I got in touch with amazon a long long time back, the aim was to plumb in

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Shade
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Hi Richard, On 06/03/2009 08:11 PM, Richard Shade wrote: Sorry for not replying to this earlier, I just saw this thread because of the newsletter. We have had CentOS Images running in the cloud since 09/06/2007,

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Jason Aubrey wrote: For making an image public, it would obviously be great if Amazon would sponsor the image... You are missing the point, imho. I think the real issue, for me anyway, is that Amazon is actively discouraging what is essentially a community, in spite of the fact that they and

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-08 Thread Jason Aubrey
Why dont you go ahead and document the build process, and I can plumb that into the distro-build scripts. That's a great idea - it was my intention. However, I've been unsuccessful thus far. I was able to create an image that booted but I was unable to ssh to the box afterwards... Someone with

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-08 Thread Sean Carolan
You are missing the point, imho. I think the real issue, for me anyway, is that Amazon is actively discouraging what is essentially a community, in spite of the fact that they and many of their users rely on the community to get things done, both work and play. Indeed. The entire

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread John R Pierce
Jason Aubrey wrote: I don't know if it's xen under the hood or not (not much experience with this sort of thing). However, 'xen' is mentioned in the following link which I'm following so perhaps it is xen related:

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Jason Aubrey wrote: In case people aren't aware, when you create an AWS (Amazon Web Services) account there's a management console that shows a list of available images. Of this list, some are published by Amazon, others are uploaded anonymously, or you can upload your own. Given the

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Karanbir Singh
Jason Aubrey wrote: I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it were represented in an official way. I started talking to Amazon about

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
On 07/05/2009, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Jason Aubrey wrote: I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it were

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Sean Carolan
So, unless they are happy to come back and start talking to us again I highly recommend everyone not bother using EC2. - KB I had the exact same experience when trying to get a sales rep to talk to me about hosting an application for my company. We need to know that someone will be there to

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sean Carolan Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:06 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud) So

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread nate
Jason Pyeron wrote: Inexpensive - Amazon EC2 passes on to you the financial benefits of Amazon's scale. You pay a very low rate for the compute capacity you actually consume. Which is kinda funny since it's not true in many situations. My company did a cost analysis of using the Amazon cloud

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-07 Thread Jason Aubrey
I don't have much experience with AWS yet, so I can't speak to any support issues. We're looking at leveraging it for automated builds initially (occasional up time) for proprietary and open source projects. For making an image public, it would obviously be great if Amazon would sponsor the

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-06 Thread Michael A. Peters
Jason Aubrey wrote: I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it were represented in an official way. In case people aren't aware, when

Re: [CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

2009-05-06 Thread Gavin Carr
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: I run CentOS inside a xen at linode - they have a 5.0 image and I believe a 4.x image. They only have i386, I don't know if a home brewed x86_64 image would work but it doesn't really matter for me since I'm only using my