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Thread Ruby Enterprise, Chef
Ruby Enterprise, ChefI'm trying to bake a CentOS 5 appliance with Ruby Enterprise and Chef gems pre-installed. I tried installing REE from source but the compilation takes ~10 minutes and there's some kind of timeout on guestfs....
CentOS 5 / grub / EC2I'm trying to build with CentOS 5 on EC2 and get the following. I'm guessing /sysroot/boot not existing is related to grub not liking /dev/loop3. Beyond that I have no idea. Suggestions or workaround...
EC2 EBS AMI for US-west (not there)Hi all, Does anyone here know what has happened to the EBS AMI for BoxGrinder Build Meta appliance in EC2 us-west region ? The AMI was announced here: http://boxgrinder.org/download/boxgrinder...
is boxgrinder the right tool for this job?Hi all, Aplogies for the less technical and more throrectical question . I want to convert our RHEL 5 SOE into AMI instances. It has to be built as we do it internally but our tools can't be reached vi...
Unable to publish EBS AMIHI, I'm unable to publish a Centos 5.6 EBS AMI at present. I'm using the EBS Meta image in us-east-1 which has been updated to the latest version by using "yum update" and "gem update" I can d...
Create CentOS6 BoxGrinderFirst, great application! Thank you. Second, has anyone been successfull at launching CentOS6? ( on EC2 ) Third. What is the best approach; make an new CentOS6 plugin, or extend the existing Cent...
pae trigger not working in 0.9.2Here is what I get when I try to build my appliance after the upgrade: Error: [line 8, col 3] [/os/pae] key 'pae:' is undefined.
Thread Building EBS on micro AMI, does not finish, ideas?
Building EBS on micro AMI, does not finish, ideas?I read comments about failing atempts building and ebs VM on Amazon. I'm not having having problems with the first steps though, After it has finished the ec2 format the application (the latest) simply doesn't finish ...
Thread Feature Request: EBS Plugin Support for CentOS v5.5
Feature Request: EBS Plugin Support for CentOS v5.5Hi, I see that there are a number of CentOS 5.5 community AMI's where the root device is EBS. Would it possible for Boxgrinder to support EBS root device for CentOS 5.5 x64 at some point in the future? ...
Running AWS EC2 m2.4xlarge imageI am attempting to deploy a Fedora 14 AMI built with BoxGrinder (Build 0.9.1) using the Amazon m2.4xlarge instance. The specifications for the m2.4xlarge image include 68.4 GB of memory. However, upo...
Thread Cannot build Fedora 14 with meta appliance for EC2 with EBS delivery
Cannot build Fedora 14 with meta appliance for EC2 with EBS deliveryHi, I've been trying BoxGrinder for the last two weeks as I need to create CentOS servers to run on Amazon EC2. I already tried with different Fedora and CentOS public AMIs with no success. Now I'm trying with an inst...
Thread Small issues with building CentOS 5.5 64bit AMI
Small issues with building CentOS 5.5 64bit AMIHi, I built a JEOS CentOS 5.5 64bit AMI this afternoon using Appliance boxgrinder-meta/fedora/14/1.5/x86_64 Boxgrinder seem to work flawlessly but the resulting AMI can only be run on instance types m1...
Thread Help with: How to make an appliance with custom build included
Help with: How to make an appliance with custom build includedHi All, I have installed Boxgrinder and now I am able to build basic Appliances (fedora image) with the OS and 1 or 2 partitions and some packages. Now I need your help with the following: ...
inheriting root passwordHello, It looks like the password setting from 'os' section is not inherited in child appliances. When I run the appliance, the root password is 'boxgrinder' instead of what was set in the parent appliance def...
Thread Missing dependencies in rubygem-boxgrinder-build
Missing dependencies in rubygem-boxgrinder-buildI just installed a fresh copy of Fedora 14. I chose the minimal install because I only wanted to use this machine to develop VM's. The first problem I had with this setup is that eth0 doesn't start. The fix for this ...
0.8.1 Couldn't read appliance definition fileHello! I've been using boxgrinder installed from ordinary fedora 14 repo, and it worked well. However now I want to use VirtualBox plugin, which needs newer version of boxgrinder. So I replaced fedora's ruby...
CentOS on CentOS image build issuesI installed BoxGrinder on my CentOS 5.5 workstation. I have encountered some problems in building a CentOS VM image in this environment. I solved or worked around some of the problems, but others remain. H...