Converting the default instance store Fedora 14 to EBS

[Marek Goldmann]

Good point Jay,

And yes, BoxGrinder supports it in the way you described (with /etc/fstab changes, etc) with one small change - we do the build on EC2 - that avoids uploading the image itself to EC2.

--Marek

On 2010-11-04, at 18:58, Jay Greguske wrote:

> Jan,
> 
> Personally I would avoid snapshotting a running instance. Doing so brings in a bunch of run-time caches and temporary data that you really don't want if you're trying to produce a fresh, pristine image. Of course if you're doing this for personal fun then you can ignore me. :)
> 
> But for releasing future Fedora AMIs though I'd suggest a procedure as follows:
> 
> 1. Build the disk image like usual*
> 2. Upload the disk image to a running instance
> 3. From within the instance dd your disk image to an EBS volume
> 4. Snapshot and register that volume as an AMI
> 
> That way you've got an EBS-backed, pristine, never-before-booted image in EC2.
> 
> - Jay
> 
> * There may be some changes to the image to support EBS backing, specifically in fstab and grub.conf so you're mounting and booting from the right volume(s).
> 
> 
> ----- "Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Marek Goldmann wrote:
>>> 
>>> Attach EBS volume, say on /dev/sdf and it'll be available in
>> instance under /dev/xvdf.
>>> 
>> 
>> Great, thanks.
>>