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Steps to fire VM & ssh to it (after you set up all credentials)

1. login to AWS page
2. select: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
3. TOP-UP: 'Your Account' , select 'AWS Management Console'
4. TOP-UP-Yellow: 'Sign in to AWS console'
5. 'Lunch Instances'
6. select type of VM (e.g. Fedora for regular linux), press select
7. in lunch wizard 'Skip this'
8. select # of machines & CPU power (star with 1, small)
9. in 'Key Pair Name' select ssh Keys you have created earlier
10. if you want output to survive after VM is shut down in options select: Availability Zone & remember it
11. press 'Lunch' at the bottom
    Now find it , it is beta-version, pressing 'Refresh' screen in the browser may help
12. to ssh to this machine you need to know:
    • Public DNS, sth like: ec2-75-101-246-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com
    • absolute path to your ssh keys, e.g. janAmazonKey.pem
13. from the local prompt execute:
    ssh -i ~/janAmazonKey.pem root@ec2-75-101-246-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com

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1. On the left, go to 'Security Groups'
2. select 'default' fire wall (unless you have sth else already)
3. add & save : SSH tcp 22 22 0.0.0.0
4. now try ssh again

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Mounting EBS (permanent) volume to the instance (it was not reliable for me, between sessions data were partially corrupted)

1. 1st time it need formating
   1. Browser: Create volume , using 'Volumes', pick 300GB (it is small and not pricy)
   2. Browser: right click on the volume, attache it to running Instance of VM, remember name, e.g.: /dev/sdf
2. ssh to VM
   1. partition this disk , e.g. using fdisk
      • fdisk /dev/sdf
        n : new partition
        p : primary
        1 : partion #1
        1 : (default begin)
        enter : (default end)
        p : print
        w : write partition
   2. format disk using mkfs
      mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdf1 ('1' is partition selected earlier)
      agrre on any question by pressing 'enter'
   3. mount disk as home dir named storage
      mkdir /storage
      mount /dev/sdf1 /storage
      cd /storage
      ls

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      SCP file from AMI to local machine

scp -i ~/janAmazonKey.pem root@ec2-174-129-63-11.compute-1.amazonaws.com:"/bla_lis" .

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Bundling & registering AMI

It works the best in a machine w/ installed Java and some EC2 software. This is reasonable instruction:http://www.linuxconfig.org/Howto_CREATE_BUNDLE_UPLOAD_and_ACCESS_custom_Debian_AMI_using_ubuntu
It is written for Ubuntu 9.04 machine, so I selected this VM:
ami-2bfd1d42 binarymillenium/ec2/ubuntu/version2/image.manifest.xml
and added the following:

next I added:
mkdir ~/aws
cd ~/aws
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-qmiami-tools.zip
sudo unzip -d /opt/ ec2-api-tools.zip
sudo unzip -d /opt/ ec2-ami-tools.zip

export PATHEC2_HOME=$PATH:/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3-3454442584/

export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME//bin/ (but version # was different)
export

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/

If c-shell is used do:

setenv EC2_HOME

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 /opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3-

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setenv PATH $PATH":$EC2_HOME

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bin/"

Now I was able to test the following command does sth
ec2-register

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1. Register Image at EC2
   ec2-register star-sl08b-s3-bucket/star-sl08b-image.manifest.xml

Conversion of VMware to EC2

http://thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/9/1/creating-an-new-ec2-ami-from-within-vmware-or-from-vmdk-files