Migrate a Linux Image from AWS to Eucalyptus

You can migrate an S3-backed image from AWS to Eucalyptus.

This topic assumes you are migrating an S3-backed Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that you own. For instructions on creating an S3-backed AMI from an existing AMI, see .

Specific examples may vary depending on the distro running on the image that you want to migrate.

Set up your Euca2ools configuration to work with both Eucalyptus and Amazon Web Services. Check ownership of the AMI that you want to migrate to Eucalyptus by using the euca-describe-images command. For example:

euca-describe-images --region us-east-1 --owner 999999999999
IMAGE	ami-e1a1e888	999999999999/precise-test	999999999999	available	private		x86_64	machine	aki-88aa75e1			instance-store	paravirtual	xen
    BLOCKDEVICEMAPPING	EPHEMERAL	sda2	ephemeral0

Run the AWS instance.

euca-run-instance ami-e1a1e888 --region us-east-1 

Install Euca2ools on the instance. For instructions, see the Euca2ools Guide. Make sure that you have enough space on a volume to hold the bundle that we will create. Bundle the running AWS instance. For example:

sudo -s
ec2-bundle-vol -b testbucket -d /mnt -u 4299-4227-3585 -k my-aws.pem -c my-aws-cert.pem -r x86_64 -s 2048
Copying / into the image file /mnt/image...
Excluding:
     /dev/pts
     /
     /sys
     /proc
     /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
     /dev
     /media
     /mnt
     /proc
     /sys
     /mnt/image
     /mnt/img-mnt
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.00209056 s, 502 MB/s
mke2fs 1.42.3 (14-May-2012)
Bundling image file...
Splitting /mnt/image.tar.gz.enc...
Created image.part.00
Created image.part.01
[example truncated]
Created image.part.30
Generating digests for each part...
Digests generated.
Unable to read instance meta-data for ancestor-ami-ids
Unable to read instance meta-data for ramdisk-id
Unable to read instance meta-data for product-codes
Creating bundle manifest...
ec2-bundle-vol complete.

Switch the Euca2ools configuration file to use Eucalyptus. You can do this by specifying the Eucalyptus region as defined in your Euca2ools configuration file by specifying the --region parameter on the command line, or by changing the default-region option in the Euca2ools configuration file:

default-region = euca-release

Download the bundle from the AWS S3 bucket:

euca-download-bundle --bucket testbucket --directory /tmp/aws-image/ --region us-east-1

Unbundle the AWS instance bundle:

euca-unbundle --manifest /tmp/aws-image/image.manifest.xml --source /tmp/aws-image/ --destination /tmp/aws-image/ --region us-east-1

Run some checks to make sure that the image can be used with Eucalyptus: Mount the image via loopback:

#  sudo mkdir /mnt/aws-image
    #  sudo mount -o loop /tmp/aws-image/image /mnt/aws-image
    #  df -ah 
    ……
    /tmp/aws-image/image
                      9.9G  1.1G  8.3G  12% /mnt/aws-image

Make sure that the distro repositories in the image do not point to EC2-specific repositories. TODO: Need an actual example here. Install a non-Xen kernel into the image from distro and make sure VirtIO modules are added. TODO: Need an actual example here. Extract the ramdisk and kernel to be bundled, uploaded and registered as ERI and EKI files. In this example, initrd.img-3.2.0-53-virtual and vmlinuz-3.2.0-53-virtual will be copied from /mnt/aws-image/boot to the /tmp/aws-image directory:

# sudo cp /mnt/aws-image/boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-53-virtual /tmp/aws-image/.
# sudo cp /mnt/aws-image/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-53-virtual /tmp/aws-image/.

Make sure that the file system of the image is either ext2, ext3, or ext4 by using the file command. For example:

# file /tmp/aws-image/image
/tmp/aws-image/image: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data (extents) (large files) (huge files)

Bundle the image using euca-bundle-image:

euca-bundle-image -i /tmp/aws-image/image

Upload the AWS bundled instance to Eucalyptus.

euca-upload-bundle -b hybrid-guide-sample-bucket -m /tmp/aws-image/image.manifest.xml --access-key myaccesskey --secret-key mysecretkey

Test the new uploaded image.

euca-run-instance emi-a6e15bcf