[CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

Jason Aubrey wrote:
> I don't know if it's xen under the hood or not (not much experience
> with this sort of thing).  However, 'xen' is mentioned in the
> following link which I'm following so perhaps it is xen related:
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2009-03-01/DeveloperGuide/index.html?ami-via-loopback.html
>
>   

fromw hat I can tell, they are just creating a temp yum repo conf file 
to specify what repos to install from and calling it |yum-xen.conf for 
some reason.   they then use that .conf file with yum like...    |

	||*|yum -c /|<yum_configuration_file>|/ --installroot=/|<image_mountpoint>|/ -y groupinstall Base

and install the 'base' group to the loopback mount, which populates the file system image.


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