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EC2 Quick Start

• sign up
• generate cert & private key
• download amazon ec2 tools into ~/ec2
• export environment variables
• export EC2_HOME=~/ec2
• export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_15
• export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/ec2/pk.pem
• export EC2_CERT=~/ec2/cert.pem
• export EC2_JVM_ARGS=”-Dhttps.proxyHost=my.proxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080″

Then run amazon ec2 describe images utility

$ ./bin/ec2-describe-images -a

you’ll see a list of over 600 AMIs including the following jumpboxs

• IMAGE   ami-70ab4f19    jumpbox-amis/bugzilla-1.1.0.manifest.xml
• IMAGE   ami-71ab4f18    jumpbox-amis/mediawiki-1.1.0.manifest.xml
• IMAGE   ami-6aac4803    jumpbox-amis/movabletype-1.1.0.manifest.xml
• IMAGE   ami-0eb45067    jumpbox-amis/wordpress-1.1.0.manifest.xml

just choose a JumpBox AMI virtual machine software appliance and run it !

Finally check your credit card bill the following month !

http://code.google.com/p/ec2ubuntu/

http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu

http://alestic.com/

http://VirtualAppliances.net/downloads/

VirtualAppliances.net appliances feature an upgrade to their base distribution, using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition, which will be supported by Canonical until 2013.

All of the 32 bit Appliances are using Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough Operating System) which provides a kernel optimized for virtual appliance use.

VMware OVF (Open Virtual appliance Format) images are now available for VMware ESX and ESXi in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

rPath Xen software appliance virtual machine build options

Non Xen

• ~!domU, ~!xen

Xen domU

• domU, ~!group-dist.bothpae, ~!kernel.pae, ~kernel.smp, xen is: x86(mmx)

Xen domU+pae

• domU, ~!group-dist.bothpae, ~kernel.pae, ~kernel.smp, xen is: x86(mmx)

The updated version of rBuilder, rPath’s flagship product, provides a new Appliance Model which allows software companies to centrally define configurations for the development, testing and release stages of their appliance.  This makes it easier for multiple groups to coordinate on the development and launch of a new appliance.  It also ensures that consistent processes are used across multiple appliance releases.

Using MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2, developers can cost-effectively deliver web-scale database applications in the “cloud”, fully backed by the database experts at MySQL.

Amazon EC2 and MySQL are a great fit for organizations that want to reduce the capital expenditures and operating costs required to build out and run their IT infrastructure.

The howtoforge has a great set of virtualisation howto’s for Xen, KVM and more !

It seems there are some issues with xen hwclock and centos and ubuntu xen vms !

• http://howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_xen_3.0.3_p7
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
• http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/CoolConfigurations
• http://jailtime.org/download:centos:v5.1?s=hwclock

You may find that installing
# yum install system-config-date
and using timeconfig instead might help

The Google App Engine JumpBox gives you a drop in place system for doing Google App Engine development that’s contained in an isolated environment within a virtual machine.

It runs exactly the same on GNU/Linux, Mac and other OS’s and gives you a development environment that lets you take advantage of great virtualization features like snapshots. It will run from a single download on Parallels Desktop, VMWare, Virtual Iron, Xen Open Source in fully virtualized mode and others.

Jump Box Open is a subscription that grants you one license for every JumpBox in the Open Source Collection for a period of one year. From Content Management Systems (CMS) to Wikis, CRM to Ticket Tracking, there are already JumpBoxes available for many of the most popular Open Source applications.

There are 20 JumpBoxes currently available, with 50 additional expected by the end of 2008.