On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:39 AM, J. Jefferson Gray <jeffg at surfmerchants.com> wrote: > We're currently running almost 20 instances with aws. We're using CentOS > 5.4/5.5 as the base, and the 2.6.18 kernel image provided by amazon in the > form of their 2.6.18-ec2-v1.4(may have that form wrong). This works well, > but its also from December 2009 so we're 6 months off where Cent is now. I was just playing with this over the last couple of days. I found that while all of upstream's kernels on ec2 seem to be marked as paid, another rebuilder of upstream, Oracle, has kernels and initrds out there for free. I just grabbed the appropriate kernel-xen from OEL and installed it, and my hand-rolled Centos5.5 image booted off their aki/ari without any problems. They don't seem to have the -194 kernel out there yet, but at least -164... Not ideal, but it works. --wes