Re: NetBSD EC2 Images

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> writes:

> https://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/bsdec2_image_upload/
> is largely accurate and can help anybody create an AMI
> (I have my own write-up that mirrors that wiki page to
> a large part at
> https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html),
> so the basic steps are well understood.

It would be nice to adjust the wiki page if it isn't the consensus view
of how to do things.

> It'd be ideal to integrate this into the build process
> for the official images for evbarm and amd64.  The
> hurdles are less technical, and more a question of
> logistics (such as creating an AWS account for TNF and
> handling the credentials, creating and managing the
> AWS resources, paying the AWS bill).

IMHO, Amazon should sponsor this activity.  This is not a generic
resource for users, but only for those using AWS.

It seems like progress to have optional support in build processes, or a
pkgsrc entry for code to make the images.

(Personally, I'm not an AWS users, so I don't be allocating cycles to
this -- they're all going to port-xen :-)