How to make the ec2 ami work on the Xen on Debian

Question

Here is the scenario. We are creating a cloud App. We have a Debian on which we create a customized image and upload it to the Amazon EC2. After uploading it to the cloud we have made some more customizations and are trying to rebundle it.

We are facing some issues in rebundling it. We would like to know if we could do something like this.

a. Create an AMI Image on Debian b. Load it on to the Xen Hypervisor which would be over the Debian c. Customize the image d. Save the customized image e. Upload it to EC2.

The issue is that I am unable to find a proper solution on how to install Xen on Debian and will the AMI on Xen work on EC2.

Any suggestions/Help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks. Krishna

Answer 1

It is not guaranteed that the AMI will work on XEN, even if Amazon uses xen to run the images, your mileage may vary.

Your best option is just to spawn that image in EC2 itself and build a new AMI based on that, you can remove that virtual machine later and the cost involved compared to the time investigating and running the local machine will be satisfactory.