Hi Peter, On 28/07/17 22:37, Peter Tribble wrote: > I wish to run up a number of OmniOS instances in AWS. > > The current OmniOS AMIs in AWS seem to use pv virtualization, precluding > their use on the t2 and m4 instance types that I want to use. > > > Worse; newer regions only support hvm. In my case, this rules out London.
That is precisely where I want to run my instances. > So, I thought I would try to produce my own AMI with hvm virtualization. > > I am looking to use omniosce r151022, is this likely to work at all? > > I have read https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Ec2Ami > <https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Ec2Ami>, does anyone know > how that procedure would be amended to cater for loader/hvm instead of > pv-grub? > > > The following should get you going: > > https://www.prakashsurya.com/post/2017-02-06-creating-a-custom-amazon-ec2-ami-from-iso/ That looks very helpful, thank you for the link. > Essentially, if you install any illumos distro you can send the disk > image up > to AWS and create an AMI. If you create the image by installing using Xen > *exactly* as described, you're done. If you're getting the image from > somewhere > else then the phys_path to the disk embedded in the pool will be wrong > and need > to be rewritten, which basically means going into Xen again. I will be using xen so hopefully all will be good... -- Al Slater _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss