Tag Archives: ec2
How to Build and Compile a Custom Linux Kernel for EC2
I have a long running goal that I'm trying to reach with all these pv-grub for EC2 posts. That goal is to find the smallest/tightest usable node that can be created for EC2. The next step in that path requires a custom Linux kernel. What follows is how to build the latest Linux kernel so [...]
Converting from VirtualBox or VMWare to EC2 now Easier than Ever
The new PV-Grub ability introduced by Amazon for EC2 has opened the door for more than just custom kernels, it also makes it a lot easier to turn VirtualBox and VMWare instances into EC2 instances. In the past I have written about transfering VirtualBox images to Xen but to do that with EC2 required a [...]
Installing Cent OS 5.5 on EC2 with the Cent OS 5.5 Kernel
Amazon recently introduced the ability to boot a custom kernel using pv-grub on EC2. This opens the door for all kinds of interesting ideas that I've been thinking about for a while, like seeing if I can boot right into a web server and skip all that extra junk that comes with Linux distributions, but [...]
Building HipHop PHP for Fedora 12 on 64 bit and 32 bit Systems
Now that Facebook has finally released the source for HipHop PHP it is time to give it a spin. Of course it is still a little rough around the edges so I figured I would toss together a quick howto on getting it to build. The first thing to note is that they are only [...]
Fedora 12 Bootable Root EBS on EC2
I recently needed to create a clean EC2 AMI using a fairly new linux distro. It has been a while since I've needed to create a new AMI so I also wanted to move away from the older pre-packaged AMI and boot using EBS. After taking a look at what was currently available publicly I [...]
Building Chromium and Chrome OS with EC2
When the initial cut of the Chromium OS source was released last week I decided to use the opportunity to see if it would run on my EEE PC 900 netbook (check out EEE PC 900 running Chrome OS on Youtube to see the final result). The first roadblock I hit with the build instructions [...]
Running Asterisk in the cloud with Amazon EC2
I have been sitting on a half post for a while now on setting up Asterisk on EC2 and then this past week someone else came out with a post on how to install Asterisk from scratch on EC2. I figured I would wrap up what I have since I take the path of installing [...]
How to transfer a Linux image from VirtualBox to Xen
There have been times recently when I wanted to pull a VirtualBox Linux instance I had into Xen. I kept thinking it had to be fairly easy but I kept putting off trying it until recently when I ran into something I wanted to install from a CD image into an Amazon EC2 AMI. It [...]
Automounting Amazon EBS volumes on EC2 instances
I've been using S3 to store semi-transient information like log files from EC2 nodes in the past but recently decided to give Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) a try instead. I quickly realized a downside to using EBS in that there is no mechanism for auto-attach and mounting volumes when an AMI is launched. This [...]
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