<div dir="ltr"><br><div style><div>Hi Hugh.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for that, much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried using the "snapshot" route, which allows you to transfer snapshots between regions through the AWS web console (<a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html">AWS documentation here</a>), but so far I have had no luck with regards to that. I started an instance with the US-EAST-1 Ubuntu 11.10 x86_64 HVM AMI (not through Star Cluster), and then created a snap shot of the root volume. I then transferred the snapshot to EU-WEST-1 region and converted that into an AMI. One issue I had, and have still not solved, was the "kernel ID" specification which was needed during the creation of the AMI from the snap shot. I could not find the kernel ID for the AMI in question, even though other flavours of Star Cluster AMI's did have associated Kernel IDs. I came unstuck when I tried to execute the AMI that I had transferred from the US-EAST-1 region to EU-WEST-1 region, and I was told by StarCluster that the AMI was not HVM, and therefore could not be executed on the CC2.8xlarge instance type. I am positive that I am using the correct AMI which is HVM supported, as this is currently the only HVM supported AMI that's available, and it's only available in US-EAST-1.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>I plan to try something slightly different, by creating a custom AMI using the StarCluster tools, and then creating a snap shot from that AMI, and transferring that. But again I may come up against the Kernel ID issue, which I still don't know how to solve.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>However some good news, I have read in a number of places on the web that Amazon are developing a tool for transferring AMI's the same way you can now transfer snap shots, and can be undertaken through the AWS console. I haven't managed to find when this is expected to be implemented though.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>There is also this that I found (<a href="http://ylastic.com/features.html">Ylastic</a>), which amongst a lot of things, appears to suggest that it can migrate EBS AMI's from region to region.</div>
</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 January 2013 18:16, MacMullan, Hugh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hughmac@wharton.upenn.edu" target="_blank">hughmac@wharton.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I have no EU AMIs, but I’ve been curious about the second question you have: what’s the ‘easy’ way to transfer AMIs? I poked around a bit today, and it looks
like ‘<a href="http://migrate-ebs-image.pl" target="_blank">migrate-ebs-image.pl</a>’, part of the VM::EC2 Perl module, is a good solution …
<i>except</i> that it converts my HVM AMIs to PV. Argh! </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’ve got a query in with the developer (Lincoln Stein) about HVM copies. I’ll let you know what I discover.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That said, if others have other
<i>easy</i> ways to transfer AMIs … I’m all ears too!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-Hugh<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:starcluster-bounces@mit.edu" target="_blank">starcluster-bounces@mit.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:starcluster-bounces@mit.edu" target="_blank">starcluster-bounces@mit.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ed Morris<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 18, 2013 5:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:starcluster@mit.edu" target="_blank">starcluster@mit.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [StarCluster] Amazon AMI 64-bit Ubuntu 11 HVM-EBS for eu-west-1 region<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been quite happily using the AMI ami-4583572c us-east-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-11.10-x86_64-hvm (HVM-EBS) on the us-east region, but couldn't find any HVM versions in the eu region.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Ed Morris<br>------------------------------------------------<br>email: <a href="mailto:ecm200@gmail.com">ecm200@gmail.com</a><br>phone:
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