Small issues with building CentOS 5.5 64bit AMI

[shaunmcc]

Hi,

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.large and greater. I cannot choose t1.micro.

When I launch the AMI I can only Terminate the instance there is no possibility to Stop the instance

I'd be grateful if someone could explain what I've done wrong as I would like to be able to Stop the Instance and have the possibility to run on t1.micro type instance.

TIA

Shaun

I exec'd this command to build the AMI              boxgrinder-build --debug centos5.appl -p ec2 -d ami

Here is my .appl file

name: centos5-mysql

summary: MySQL Server

version: 0

release: 1

os:

  name: centos

  version: 5

  password: xxxxxx

hardware:

  partitions:

    "/":

      size: 5

packages:

  - @core

  - lvm2

  - mlocate

  - man

  - parted

  - openssh-clients

  - mysql-server

post:

  base:

    - "/sbin/chkconfig iptables off"

    - "/sbin/chkconfig ip6tables off"

My config looks like this:

plugins:

  centos:

    format: qcow2      # Disk format to use. Default: raw.

  fedora:

    format: qcow2      # Disk format to use. Default: raw.

  local:

    path: /root/appliances/build

    overwrite: false               # default: false

    package: false                 # default: true

  s3:

    access_key: pppp

    secret_access_key: nnnnn

    bucket: maxown-build

    account_number: 0000-0000-0000

    path: /images

    cert_file: /root/.ssh/cert-my.pem

    key_file: /root/.ssh/pk-my.pem

    host: http://maxown-build.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

[goldmann]

Shaun,

t1.micro instances are only EBS-based, build the  appliance using EBS plugin, like this:

boxgrinder-build --debug centos5.appl -p ec2 -d ebs

Read more about t1.micro here. Note the "EBS storage only".

--Marek

[shaunmcc]

Marek,

Great stuff. Thanks so much for you instantaneous answer.

Hope CentOS 6 comes out soon..

Cheers

Shaun