James, Anders, Thanks a lot for your answers.
Let me get familiar with bootstrap-vz and see if I can produce hvm-s3 images of Jessie/Wheezy with one of your code branches. Then I’ll be glad to provide patches if any, and to help you provide the full range of images for EC2. Best, -- Gui > On Mar 5, 2015, at 06:31, James Bromberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/03/2015 3:26 PM, Anders Ingemann wrote: >> On 5 March 2015 at 02:22, Guillaume Plessis <[email protected]> wrote: >> thanks for providing official Wheezy and Jessie images for Amazon EC2. >> >> Because HVM is the way to go on EC2 these days and because I don’t want to >> rely on EBS disks for most of my instances, I’d like to know the status of >> HVM-S3 images for Wheezy and Jessie (my searches on this subject returned >> mixed signals) : >> - are they still being worked on? >> - what are the technical stoppers? >> - how can I help? >> >> Yes, I am working on getting HVM images going. >> Currently the showstopper is getting integration testing working fully >> (https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz/tree/wip-integration-testing). >> With that in place I can start to test all possible combinations of EC2 AMI >> setups, this has worked very well for virtualbox, where almost every single >> manifest parameter combination is now working (the three dimensions are >> distribution, partitioning type and bootloader. "almost" because grub >> install on squeeze does not work, but that's it). >> Given the success with the stability of vbox image bootstrapping on that >> branch, I'd like to do the same for EC2 images. I've just been quite busy, >> so I've had little time to finish the work I've started. >> If you'd like to help, I can push the initial work on EC2 integration >> testing so that we can work on it in concert. >> > > HVM for EBS Jessie seems to be working fine - but patches welcome for S3 > backed. It looks like current versions of Eycalyptus has not been producing > manifest files that are acceptable to AWS's Bunndle Image command > (https://eucalyptus.atlassian.net/browse/TOOLS-29) but this looks like it is > fixed now as of 23 January 2015! This means its too late to make that as a > stable package in Jessie, thus bootstrap-vz will need to download and install > euca2ools. > > What we do need to do is merge the code base between my branch and Anders'. I > had a look but couldnt work through the set of conflicts - patches welcome - > my branch is https://github.com/JamesBromberger/bootstrap-vz > > > James > > > -- > Mobile: +61 422 166 708, Email: james_AT_rcpt.to
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