# [OmniOS-discuss] Omios, hvm and AWS

Al Slater al.slater at scluk.com
Sat Jul 29 08:53:57 UTC 2017

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    Hi Peter,

    On 28/07/17 22:37, Peter Tribble wrote:
    >     I wish to run up a number of OmniOS instances in AWS.
    >
    >     The current OmniOS AMIs in AWS seem to use pv virtualization, precluding
    >     their use on the t2 and m4 instance types that I want to use.
    >
    >
    > Worse; newer regions only support hvm. In my case, this rules out London.

    That is precisely where I want to run my instances.

    >     So, I thought I would try to produce my own AMI with hvm virtualization.
    >
    >     I am looking to use omniosce r151022, is this likely to work at all?
    >
    >     I have read https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Ec2Ami
    >     <https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Ec2Ami>, does anyone know
    >     how that procedure would be amended to cater for loader/hvm instead of
    >     pv-grub?
    >
    >
    > The following should get you going:
    >
    > https://www.prakashsurya.com/post/2017-02-06-creating-a-custom-amazon-ec2-ami-from-iso/

    That looks very helpful, thank you for the link.

    > Essentially, if you install any illumos distro you can send the disk
    > image up
    > to AWS and create an AMI. If you create the image by installing using Xen
    > *exactly* as described, you're done. If you're getting the image from
    > somewhere
    > else then the phys_path to the disk embedded in the pool will be wrong
    > and need
    > to be rewritten, which basically means going into Xen again.

    I will be using xen so hopefully all will be good...

    --
    Al Slater

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