[Starcluster] EC2 Cluster Compute Instances

[Justin Riley]

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Hi Austin,

> If I get a chance this weekend I will play around with trying to get a
> Lucid AMI booting off of the pv_grub kernel.

Awesome, that would be really useful. Having a bare alestic/lucid HVM
AMI is preferred. All I've seen so far is the reference CentOS AMI :\

~Justin


On 07/15/2010 07:13 AM, Austin Godber wrote:
> Howdy,
>      Looks like the ec2ubuntu guys have HVM working on the alphas for 
> the next Ubuntu release:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu/browse_thread/thread/111fad2ac47bfe6e
> 
> If I get a chance this weekend I will play around with trying to get a 
> Lucid AMI booting off of the pv_grub kernel.
> 
> Austin
> 
> On 07/13/2010 09:57 AM, Justin Riley wrote:
>> Another issue besides the "Cluster placement groups" that Dan mentioned
>> is that
>> you also *have* to use EBS-backed instances AND the EBS-backed AMI has to be a
>> HVM (Hardware Virtualized Machine) EBS AMI.
>>
>>    
> 
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