[03:41] heh insecure [14:19] hi all, i forgot to terminate the running VMs before stop the cloud. and when i start the cloud again , "euca-describe-availability-zones verbose" shows " free is 0000" so that i do not have enough resource to start vm , what should i do ? [14:27] oh, now i can start vm again, [14:28] don't know what happened.. === daker_ is now known as daker [20:22] already here [20:22] kjdash: Hi [20:22] kjdash: you mentioned you want to work on the ebs migration tool right [20:22] yes [20:22] great .. so what are your questions [20:24] so the basic idea is: start an ebs instance in one region, and then start another in another region, copy the ebs volume over, snapshot and register [20:24] yes [20:25] do we require the user to list the amis to be launched in each region? [20:25] the ebs vol you copy over, is however not the ebs vol that is the root for the running instance [20:25] so both instances are running .. and each of them, has a ebs volume attached to it [20:25] use rsync [20:25] an ebs volume other than the root ebs volume [20:26] flaccid, yes, most likely [20:26] yes, i.e. the version of the utility ec2 instance, is independent than the the version of the ebs instance you're actually copying [20:26] i.e. you could launch 2 ubuntu instances to copy a centos instance, makes sense ? [20:27] so really, the goal is to migrate an ebs snapshot, not an ami [20:27] An ebs ami is an ebs snapshot (someone correct me if I'm wrong) [20:28] yeah just rsync. you can't get the snapshot out of s3 manually [20:30] flaccid: do you have the perfect rsync command for that ? copying all the special files and magic ? [20:30] ok, so here is where i see the problem [20:30] rsync -az does the trick depending on what you need to do [20:30] rsync -azv or some such [20:31] there is an article i have to review today on this topic that i can show you later on, though alestic.com and google.com has much on this [20:31] if you want to register an ami in the other region, you need to know things like kernel, ramdisk, architecture [20:32] copy from src ? [20:32] which is no problem if you require that information at runtime [20:32] personally, i don't re-use the root ebs volume as i design appliances [20:34] i would imagine something like the syntax of ec2-register-img but with --source-region and --dest-region options [20:34] the --region param. its in teh commandline reference doc [20:35] flaccid: i typically use a modified base image, and then a custom repository with meta packages [20:35] what do you use? [20:37] RightScale ServerTemplates [20:57] smoser: someone working on the ebs migration tool, asks if it's ok to target python 2.7 (for argparse module). Any ideas [21:46] so euca2ools doesn't support registering an EBS ami eh? [21:47] ec2-register [21:47] err euca-register [21:48] sure, but euca-register doesn't support snapshots [21:50] check the docs and see what does; sorry i don't use euca much yet [21:50] i was more asking for clarification [21:51] i looked at the source, it clearly does not support registering ami with snapshot [21:51] kjdash: http://www.google.com.au/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=eucalyptus+register+ebs+ami&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest [21:52] the first result explains [22:05] unf, the 6 searches i tried failed to produce that result. thanks [22:07] np