Latest revision as of 18:36, 25 July 2013

Manual image registration process

Decompress the image file

Use this command to extract the image files.

tar xvzf images.tgz

You get a directory listing like so:

images
|-- aki-lucid
|   |-- image
|   `-- info.json
|-- ami-tiny
|   |-- image
|   `-- info.json
`-- ari-lucid
    |-- image
    `-- info.json

Send commands to upload sample image to the cloud

Type or copy/paste the following commands to create a manifest for the kernel.

euca-bundle-image -i images/aki-lucid/image -p kernel --kernel true

You should see this in response:

Checking image
Tarring image
Encrypting image
Splitting image...
Part: kernel.part.0
Generating manifest /tmp/kernel.manifest.xml

Type or copy/paste the following commands to create a manifest for the ramdisk.

euca-bundle-image -i images/ari-lucid/image -p ramdisk --ramdisk true

You should see this in response:

Checking image
Tarring image
Encrypting image
Splitting image...
Part: ramdisk.part.0
Generating manifest /tmp/ramdisk.manifest.xml

Type or copy/paste the following commands to upload the kernel bundle.

euca-upload-bundle -m /tmp/kernel.manifest.xml -b mybucket

You should see this in response:

Checking bucket: mybucket
Creating bucket: mybucket
Uploading manifest file
Uploading part: kernel.part.0
Uploaded image as mybucket/kernel.manifest.xml

Type or copy/paste the following commands to upload the ramdisk bundle.

euca-upload-bundle -m /tmp/ramdisk.manifest.xml -b mybucket

You should see this in response:

Checking bucket: mybucket
Uploading manifest file
Uploading part: ramdisk.part.0
Uploaded image as mybucket/ramdisk.manifest.xml

Type or copy/paste the following commands to register the kernel and get its ID.

euca-register mybucket/kernel.manifest.xml

You should see this in response:

IMAGE   ami-fcbj2non

Type or copy/paste the following commands to register the ramdisk and get its ID.

euca-register mybucket/ramdisk.manifest.xml

You should see this in response:

IMAGE   ami-orukptrc

Type or copy/paste the following commands to create a manifest for the machine image associated with the ramdisk and kernel IDs that you got from the previous commands.

euca-bundle-image -i images/ami-tiny/image -p machine  --kernel ami-fcbj2non --ramdisk ami-orukptrc

You should see this in response:

Checking image
Tarring image
Encrypting image
Splitting image...
Part: machine.part.0
Part: machine.part.1
Part: machine.part.2
Part: machine.part.3
Part: machine.part.4
Generating manifest /tmp/machine.manifest.xml

Type or copy/paste the following commands to upload the machine image bundle.

euca-upload-bundle -m /tmp/machine.manifest.xml -b mybucket

You should see this in response:

Checking bucket: mybucket
Uploading manifest file
Uploading part: machine.part.0
Uploading part: machine.part.1
Uploading part: machine.part.2
Uploading part: machine.part.3
Uploading part: machine.part.4
Uploaded image as mybucket/machine.manifest.xml

Type or copy/paste the following commands to register the machine image and get its ID.

euca-register mybucket/machine.manifest.xml

You should see this in response:

IMAGE   ami-g06qbntt

You can proceed to Starting an instance