Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-22 Thread Scott Moser
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Spike Spiegel wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Scott Moser wrote: > > vm-builder does it more like: > >  * create a root filesystem > >  * install certain packages in it (cloud-init, legacy-grub-ec2, > >   openssh-server... the 'uec' task) > >  * copy root filesystem

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-20 Thread Spike Spiegel
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Scott Moser wrote: > vm-builder does it more like: >  * create a root filesystem >  * install certain packages in it (cloud-init, legacy-grub-ec2, >   openssh-server... the 'uec' task) >  * copy root filesystem to loopback image how is this image created? like a d

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-19 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Spike Spiegel wrote: > vmbuilder is exactly what I need and have been tried to use, except > that the one shipped with maverick is clearly broken and couldn't find > a working one until you pointed out yours (thanks again!). But it's > true tho that I'd like to also understand

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-19 Thread Spike Spiegel
Hi again, On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Scott Moser wrote: > See info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/Publishing ah, great, thanks. That seems indeed to point to a branch of vmbuilder that has a working ec2 plugin (just commenting based on a cursory look at the code tho). How come the o

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-19 Thread Scott Moser
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Spike Spiegel wrote: > Hi there, > > thanks for your answer > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:24 AM, John Pugh wrote: > > > I think this is what you are looking for... > > https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-on-ec2/vmbuilder/automated-ec2-builds > > that's useful, thanks. > > > I b

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-19 Thread Spike Spiegel
Hi there, thanks for your answer On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:24 AM, John Pugh wrote: > I think this is what you are looking for... > https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-on-ec2/vmbuilder/automated-ec2-builds that's useful, thanks. > I believe it uses a patched version of vmbuilder to produce imag

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-18 Thread John Pugh
On 11/18/2010 06:39 PM, Spike Spiegel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: >> I think you mean to ask about how the "Ubuntu" AMIs are built. The Ubuntu >> AMIs I published under the Alestic name are mostly old and not strongly >> recommended any more. > > ah,

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-18 Thread Spike Spiegel
Hi, On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Eric Hammond wrote: > I think you mean to ask about how the "Ubuntu" AMIs are built. The  Ubuntu > AMIs I published under the Alestic name are mostly old and not strongly > recommended any more. ah, thanks for pointing that out, I am indeed after the "Ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-cloud] How are Ubuntu images built?

2010-11-18 Thread Eric Hammond
I think you mean to ask about how the "Ubuntu" AMIs are built. The Ubuntu AMIs I published under the Alestic name are mostly old and not strongly recommended any more. We now have official Ubuntu AMIs published by Canonical, which are strongly recommended for use on EC2. I make this clarific