Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS c5d.9/18xlarge instances not supported

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 5:22 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:

See above. Also, the base CentOS 7 3.10.0 kernel is becoming a bit dated: it's 5 years old now. If you have time: can you set up a smaller instance, do kernel updates on top of a CentOs 7 AMI, and see if *that* AMI is compatible with the new instances? Might make for an interesting test and get you a working AMI.

I did this with CentOS 6 at some point, and it's worth noting that you'll have to build your own AMI from scratch, you can't just update the existing AMI- the base AMI's lack of support "taints" derived ones.

I used packer's chroot builder, it was pretty reasonable and you can find examples online to help you get started.