`<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""></span><br><span class=""></span><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
> The current OmniOS AMIs in AWS seem to use pv virtualization, precluding<br>
> their use on the t2 and m4 instance types that I want to use.<br>
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> The following should get you going:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.prakashsurya.com/post/2017-02-06-creating-a-custom-amazon-ec2-ami-from-iso/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.prakashsurya.com/<wbr>post/2017-02-06-creating-a-<wbr>custom-amazon-ec2-ami-from-<wbr>iso/</a></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just to say that I successfully created a hvmAMI for my own distro (Tribblix)<br></div><div>using those instructions. Almost all my problems were on the xen side.<br><br></div><div>Other than having to work out how to reset the BIOS password on my test<br></div><div>PC to enable the VT-x extensions needed for hvm support, the other problem<br></div><div>I had is that illumos panics when trying to use the xen network. So I had to<br></div><div>create a VM without a network interface, install the OS, then enable nwam <br></div></div>and ensure I had a valid user I could ssh to so I could run up the AMI on<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">EC2, log in using the temporary account, and do the rest of the configuration<br>while running on EC2 to create the final AMI.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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