[OmniOS-discuss] Omios, hvm and AWS
Al Slater
al.slater at scluk.com
Sat Jul 29 08:53:57 UTC 2017
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
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