[Thincrust-devel] [patch] act - ec2 conversion option for appliance-creator

[Bryan Kearney]

Joey Boggs wrote:
> Only allows 1 disk in a kickstart currently, anymore will fail. Working 
> on the virt-convert scenarios next.

I testted it and got the error below. Couple of comments

1) If I specify the --appliancetype then is the format, vmem, and vcpu 
items ignored? Huff, based on our chats yesterday should this be --type 
(to prep for package, ovf, vmware etc)

-- bk


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grub> device (hd0) /dev/loop0
grub> root (hd0,0)
  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup 
--stage2=/root/cache/imgcreate-gNLr6K/install_root/boot/grub/stage2 
--prefix=/boot/grub  (hd0)
  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
  Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
  Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not 
fatal)
  Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is 
not fatal)
  Running "install 
--stage2=/root/cache/imgcreate-gNLr6K/install_root/boot/grub/stage2 
/boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/grub.conf "... 
succeeded
Done.
grub> quit

TMPDIR: /var/tmp/ec2-convert-lmqjnakw
loop0p1 : /

Disk Space Required: 423M

Creating a new disk image with additional freespace: 699M total
dd: opening `/var/tmp/ec2-convert-lmqjnakw-tmpimage/ec2-diskimage.img': 
No such file or directory
mke2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
mke2fs: No such file or directory while trying to determine filesystem size
/var/tmp/ec2-convert-lmqjnakw-tmpimage/ec2-diskimage.img: No such file 
or directory

Performing rsync on all partitions to new root

Unmounting /var/tmp/ec2-convert-lmqjnakw/
Freeing loopdevices


openssh-server-5.1p1-2.fc9.i386 is installed

curl-7.18.2-1.fc9.i386 is installed

MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists
* - Updating /etc/fstab

* - Creating rc.local configuration

* - Creating ssh configuration

* - Creating eth0 configuration

* - Prevent nosegneg errors

Adding EC2 Tools
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
  Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
  Speed
100 8027k  100 8027k    0     0  1570k      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:-- 
1939k
Configure image for accepting the EC2 kernel
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
  Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
  Speed
100 16.5M  100 16.5M    0     0   741k      0  0:00:22  0:00:22 --:--:-- 
  838k
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
    1:kernel-xen             ########################################### 
[100%]
umount: /var/tmp/ec2-convert-lmqjnakw: not mounted
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/ec2-converter", line 139, in <module>
     sys.exit(main())
   File "/usr/bin/ec2-converter", line 124, in main
     shutil.move(fsimage,imagefile)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/shutil.py", line 191, in move
     os.rename(src, dst)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, NoneType found