[13:28] <selinuxium> Hi all,
[13:29] <selinuxium> I have a 10.04 instance running on VMware. I would like to convert it to an EC2 instance. The VM is already 50gb. How would I go about it?
[15:48] <SpamapS> erichammond: ping! got a second to talk about your ideas for adding the rest of the Amazon tools to Ubuntu?
[15:58] <smoser> selinuxium, i dont think there is any straightforward documentation written.
[15:58] <smoser> you'll basically have to perform a 'v2v', and remember that on ec2 root filesystem is /dev/sda1 and you upload a partition (not a full disk).
[15:59] <smoser> for anyone interested, I'm been playing with porting instance support (for UEC images) and host support (for UEC) for rebooting into new kernels back to lucid.
[15:59] <smoser> https://launchpad.net/~smoser/+archive/lucid-kernel-upgrades
[16:04] <selinuxium> smoser, Hi there, sorry was afk...
[16:13] <selinuxium> smoser, How would I go about doing a v2v, from which side would you perform the task?
[16:14] <smoser> i only have very general advice.
[16:14] <smoser> for a starting point, i'd suggest
[16:14] <smoser>  - start an ubuntu instance
[16:14] <smoser>  - attach a volume
[16:15] <smoser>  - rsync the vmware's partition's content to the attached volume
[16:15] <smoser>  - unmount volume
[16:15] <smoser>  - snapshot volume, register ami
[16:16] <smoser>  - debug, rinse, repeat
[16:16] <smoser> things you'll probably want to add to your image in ec2 would be:
[16:16] <smoser>  - linux-ec2 kernel
[16:16] <smoser>  - cloud-init
[16:24] <selinuxium> smoser, cheers for your help. :)
[16:25] <smoser> selinuxium, i'm sure others would be interested in your findings
[16:25] <smoser> if you blogged or wrote a mail on what you had to do to ubuntu-cloud mailing list
[16:26] <selinuxium> smoser, I will give it a go  :)
[17:50] <Makere> is it possible to use cores from multiple servers in one VM?
[17:59] <Makere> multiple nodes*
[18:47] <smoser> Makere, ?
[18:48] <smoser> you mean like if you had 2 machines each with 4 cpus, could you create a VM that used 6 cpus ?
[18:48] <smoser> is that what you're asking?
[19:09] <Makere> ye
[19:28] <smoser> no.