On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 19 April 2008 22:34, Mark V wrote:
Hi Group, Some time over the next week, or longer, I hope to make an attempt at building an openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 Amazon Machine Image. Has anyone attempted this found: - There are some show stoppers? - There are dead ends to avoid?
There are a few threads in the Amazon Developer Connection forums relating to creating an AMI for 10.x openSUSE. The latest is:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=67905
I'm interested in EC2 as a platform for deploying my Web application, but at the moment, I cannot spend much time on it.
I'd be very interested in knowing how this goes for you, however, and if you do get something working, it would be nice if you could contribute
I've done some research and examined various scripts people have posted for other distributions and it seems to require a level of technical knowledge I don't have. I have used the RightScale Redhat script and ran into some 'trivial' headaches that took days to work out, so I can see starting from scratch on a different distrribution is not for the amateur. The good news is I posted a howto setup NX on the AWS dev connection and it seems to me that this should work for openSUSE - hopefully that will save time for someone later on :)
it as one of the publically available AMIs that can be downloaded from the Amazon Developer Connection:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=10...
Thanks, I had seen that thread. I suppose I'm reluctant to move from openSUSE, but the reality seems it is not a priority for Novell (no equivalent to redhats MRG efforts). Examining the AWS developer connection, the AMI listings and openSUSE mail lists suggest this is not a common use case for the openSUSE user base. In both cases the risk is that lessons learned are largely wasted because they won't feedback to a vibrant community effort. Its unfortunate but that is the beauty of Linux - users with particular needs can freely coalesce and migrate as they wish :) Cheers Mark
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Appreciate any thoughts Cheers Mark
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