>>Ok, creating a self-contained iso now works. Did you have it in mind to boot iso files directly on cloud providers including EC2?
I spent several hours yesterday digging to try to find a way to boot an ISO on EC2. As far as I can tell it isn’t possible. I understand it’s possible to mount a cdrom to a Xen guest but there’s no way to mount a cdrom in EC2. There’s also no concept of “iso formatted ebs” so there’s no way to make an instance boot from ISO. iso files can only be mounted from an ebs volume on a running instance, which is of course post boot so no solution there. I believe that other cloud providers like those based on OpenStack might be able to do it but I did only cursory research in that direction. Happy to be proven wrong but I dug pretty deep. as
