I was a bit tired last night but I seem to have got this assembled this morning. I wanted to share with the list for posterity in case anyone else runs into this. I wrote up how to do this in two pieces.
First, here's how to get a buster AMI running on AWS: https://paullockaby.com/archive/2019/07/building-debian-aws-ec2-amis/ Second, here's how to get the debian-cloud-images process to make something usable in VMWare Fusion: https://paullockaby.com/archive/2019/07/using-debian-cloud-images-in-vmware-fusion/ Really thanks to Noah Meyerhans for all of his documentation or I never would have been able to figure this out. Thanks, -Paul > On Jul 27, 2019, at 11:18 PM, Paul Lockaby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! Please tell me if I'm in the wrong forum and I'll try somewhere else. > > Using bits and pieces of documentation from around here (thanks Noah > Meyerhans) and other places I've figured out how to create AWS EC2 AMIs for > buster. I'd like to use the same process to create something that I can boot > up with VMWare Fusion so that I have an image for local development that is > pretty identical to what I have on AWS. > > I've successfully converted the "raw" file that debian-cloud-images generates > into a "vmdk" file and it boots but it won't actually start the init process. > It freezes when it finishes loading the kernel. > > Is what I'm trying to do possible? What step am I missing? This is the > command that I'm using to create my ec2 images: > > ./debian-cloud-images build buster ec2 amd64 --build-id manual --version 1 > --override-name ec2-buster-image --build-type official > > I've tried changing "ec2" to "generic" and "genericcloud" with no success. > > Thanks, > -Paul
