[Thincrust-devel] ec2-converter on other distributions

[Henry Huang]

Hi, Joey

Thanks for your response.
I have tried boxgrinder tool to create EC2 AMI.
boxgrinder is quite amazing. Some problems still left.

1) seems difficult to use kickstart config directly.
boxgrinder appl template cannot add post scripts. I noticed boxgrinder
actually generated relevant ks and used appliance-tools to create
image.
In my opinion, kickstart file as the configuration on the image would
be easily maintained for the products based on RHEL/centos.
Jeremy Katz has already created a ks-based AMI creator, can be found
here: https://github.com/katzj/ami-creator
However, it only supports S3 AMI and still on the early way (no
multi-users or multi-partition support)

2) current EC2 plugin could only satisfy a little of my requirements
a. multi-partition support & further LVM support
b. multi-user support
i am still on the way of getting more familiar with boxgrinder - maybe
these have been solved.

do you have any similar problems? maybe we could discuss it.

Thanks for your attention.
Best wishes,
Henry



On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Joey Boggs <jboggs at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/21/2011 02:52 AM, Henry Huang wrote:
>
> Hi, all
>
> Congratulations for your guys -- a new version of appliance-tools released.
> I was an engineer working on EC2 support on my product.
> It is not much time for me to know & use appliance tools (ec2-converter).
> Actually from your code, I find some hard-coded scripts, like
> fedora-xen or ami-tools.
> I wonder whether you have planed to support other distributions on EC2
> migration/converter.
> Besides, will "LVM support" on appliance tools be one feature in the
> next release?
>
> Anyway, I love this tools, thanks for your efforts!
>
> Best wishes,
> Henry,
>
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> ec2-converter is pretty much stale at this point, you may want to look at
> boxgrinder which was created around the same time frame and can do what you
> want and much more.
>
> http://boxgrinder.org/
>