[OmniOS-discuss] Omios, hvm and AWS

[Al Slater]

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...


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Al Slater