Boxgrinder and/or Thincrust Hey all, I've seen references within the boxgrinder forum and issue tracker around thincrust, and was wondering if there is someone who could help elaborate on the Boxgrinder/Thincrust relations as they are related t... 
No eth0 device with Scientific Linux 5 Hi, I'm trying to build an appliance using SL5 but am unable to get an internet connection. I'm using boxgrinder-build-0.1.0.2 in the i686 v1.7 meta-appliance. I've tried this with a variety of different appl settings... 
how to create a ec2 image offline Hi all, This is my first post to the forums. I have a very simple question. I have installed boxgrinder 0.2.0 on fedora 12. I have also created a simple jeos.appl in appliances/ directory which looks like: ... 
FATAL -- : RuntimeError: No class specified for your plugin Hi , First of all I would like to thank you for your great effort , really appreciate it ! Could you please look into the following error : root@ubuntu:~/boxgrinder-appliances/ubuntu-jeos# boxg... 
ebs delivery fails: timeout occured retrieving ec2 hostname rubygem-boxgrinder-build-0.10.4-1.fc17.noarch rubygem-boxgrinder-core-0.3.14-1.fc17.noarch ec2-ami-tools-1.4-0.9.noarch boxgrinder-build f17-asterisk.appl -p ec2 -d ebs --force ........... I, [2012... 
Boot failure, related to module symbols? I'm trying to build Scientific Linux 5.8 appliances. In the past week or so, while the appliances have built normally, they've failed at boot. There seems to be a problem with the module symbols, meaning... 
Unable to deliver packaged image to S3 Folks, I am trying to build a CentOS 6 JEOS image with my software installed and want them delivered to S3. I have got the appliaction defintion done, the image is build fine without any problem and have had it deliv... 
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate -- EC2: EBS vs S3 (that's one question... redundancy is another) I spent a week (or two) using what I could find on the web to write bash scripts to build EBS and local instance store AMIs (it would also automatically launch them so I could immediately test). I have some nice... 
i386 ec2 build on x86_64 installs x86_64 kernel I'm trying to build an i386 ec2 image on fedora 17 x86_64. It's not going well. The x86_64 kernel is installed. Maybe the problem in that the arch is not passed to supermin in host_cpu?? .appl: ... Anyway to force MSDOS partition layout When creating an appliance as CentOS the partition table/layout is MSDOS/MBR. When I make a fedora appliances it uses GPT/GUID. Unfortunately I have some things that don't have compatability with GPT/GUID for doing pa... 
Small instance not accessible after convert to ebs I'm converted instance store to ebs ami. When I try start medium instance from ami, works fine, but when I try start small instance the instance not work. Follow the Logs: Linux version 2.6.16-xenU (root@ip-10-... VMWare Tools Here are a few observations using BoxGrinder and VMWare. If you are building in the HGFS (VMWare shared filesystem) mounted filesystem, it will fail with a cryptic error. I had to copy the files from my ... 
ec2 Builds failing on kvm meta appliance with local repos When not specifying any repo's I can successfully create ami's, however when use a local repo it doesn't work at all. I have included the command, the appl file and errors that occur in the logs. It looks like all the... 
Adding existing SSH keys to multiple appliances Hi, I'm using Boxgrinder to build out several VMs for webapp testing (nginx media server, apache/mod_wsgi app server, and a postgres server). I'm currently using a post command to pull down 2 ssh public ... 
Invalid Package Groups I was creating an appliance with an invalid/missing package group and the creation didn't error out. Missing packages error out, but missing package groups don't. Is this a bug? Cannot ssh to VM in EC2 Hi, I am attempting to use Boxgrinder to build a Scientific Linux 5 AMI and have it automatically upload and register it. Everything appears to work fine until I try to ssh to my running instance. ... 
Build error Hello oh gurus! I have gotten some not so nice build errors when creating a supersimple appliance. Please advise. F, [2012-09-18T09:09:31.861080 #1941] FATAL -- : RuntimeError: An error occurred while ... 
deadline for NATO to withdraw most Violence is increasing across Afghanistan ahead of the 2014 deadline for NATO to withdraw most of its troops, and fears are mounting that the 350,000-strong NATO-trained Afghan security forces will not be able to tack... 
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.2 support Hi, Is RHEL 6.2 supported right now ? we need to create some appliances on RHEL 6.2 Thanks. 
boxgrinder-build not setting exit status on error Running rubygem-boxgrinder-build-0.10.2-1.fc16.noarch on Fedora 16. I noticed that when a build fails, I'm still getting exit 0. I tried '-b' thinking that would help, no difference. Am I... 
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