Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org writes:
After much conversation to / from their end, they are in a situation where they have offered me some access and credits to make the whole CentOS on AWS happen. This is the sort of thing right up the VirtSIG alley, so am wondering if there are people here who would like to help out at all ?
I would be interested in helping.
If we released a 'live filesystem image' (that is, a minimal CentOS instalation to a loopback-mounted file) with Xen kernels installed, it could be used by both ec2 and other VPS providers.
the real advantage here would be for users (and providers) who want to use CentOS VMs, but don't have CentOS boxes laying about to do yum --installroot installs.
If we want to make things super easy for ec2 users, we could create an 'official' CentOS shared AMI that people could use, based on that live filesystem image. And if it was a trusted part of the CentOS release process, it wouldn't have the trust issues that most shared AMI have. This, I think, would be a big win, and is a much bigger win if it's done 'officially' by the CentOS release process than if it's done by some random guy creating and sharing a CentOS image.