https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667303 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667303#c0 Summary: kiwi: improve ec2 images Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE.org Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: ASSIGNED Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: System Imaging AssignedTo: ms@novell.com ReportedBy: ms@novell.com QAContact: adrian@novell.com CC: pzb@novell.com, rschweikert@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- kiwi's ec2 support today creates a virtual disk image which can only serve as an EBS volume inside Amazon. Our most important and only customer IBM can't use this kind of ami and needs the other ami type which just comes as a filesystem image. In addition to that Amazon provided a new functionality (importVolume) which allows to translate the fileystem based ami into an EBS volume. Therefore kiwi should be changed in a way that allows the creation of a generic ami which is filesystem based and can be turned into an EBS volume by Amazon's ec2 toolkit. In order to achieve this the ec2 image type needs to be specified as follows: <type image="ext3" format="ec2"/> .... <packages type="image"/> <package name="kernel-ec2"/> </packages> The ec2 format code needs the following changes: 1) create the initrd with mkinitrd and parameters and put it to /boot 2) create the bootloader configuration (grub) with fixed /dev/sda1 root device and put it to /boot 3) bundle this image as ami In addition to that the ec2 bootprofile can be removed from kiwi's boot (initrd) image descriptions -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.