This documents the process of building an PV-GRUB AMI using in this case Centos 7.
However, the process should be repeatable for any kind of new distro that hasn't AMIs created yet.
The information and repos that I found all revolve around:
- creating a filesystem image file that is then blessed with
ec2-bundle-image.
This did not work, because I could never get it to boot with the PV-GRUB AKI images. I am definitely doing something wrong, as all the scripts that I found do exactly this, but no combination of
- specifying block-device-mappings as
ami=sda,root=/dev/sda,ami=/dev/sda,root=/dev/sda, etc - using PV-GRUB
0or00AKI images
worked
- creating a snapshot out of an existing HVM AMI. This did not work, because there were no existing AMIs :)
What did work is:
- Create a partitioned disk image, using MBR
- Install the necessary stuff there
You need
- Access to AWS (keypairs, secret / access key)
- A centos 7 machine (Virtualbox, VMWare, bare metal, doesn't matter)
- An X.509 cert / private key
- Login to a Centos 7 VM (Virtualbox, etc)
- Edit config_aws, config_pv_raw with the necessary parameters
source {functions.sh,config_aws,config_pv_rawbash build-image.sh. Run the script. Very little testing was needed, so you might be better off copying the commands and checking for errors. Problematic steps are grub installation.
- First, create a PV image
- Boot an AWS machine with the PV image (don't know if necessary, but this is how I got it working)
- Login to the machine, checkout the code
source {functions.sh,config_aws,config_hvm_mbrbash build-hvm-image-from-pv-image. Run the script. Very little testing was needed, so you might be better off copying the commands and checking for errors. Problematic steps are grub installation.
- Troubleshooting Instances AWS doc
- https://github.com/mkocher/ami_building
- https://github.com/BashtonLtd/centos-ami
- https://github.com/giabao/centos-ami
- https://github.com/SystemBelle/Build-AMI
- create GPT image, not MBR
- test HVM instances