appliance from AMI

[duckysan]

Hello

I know both Applogic and Amazon use Xen. Has anyone tried to create a catalog appliance out of an existing AMI (amazon format) automatically ?

Cheers
Duc

[PeterNic]

Duc,

AMIs don't have enough metadata to make a good appliance automatically.

If you are referring to essentially copying the AMI image and using it as a starting point, that should be easy to do -- download and unpack the AMI using the AMI tools; copy the files to an empty volume and untar the APK.

That should get you going... at least get it booting up to the configuration phase -- you can instrument terminals, properties, etc. -- that is something you generally do manually since there is no equivalent in AMIs.



Best regards,

-- Peter