Some AWS instance types still do not support serial console output or
screenshots. For these instance types, the only viable way to extract
debugging information is to use the INT13 console (which is already
enabled via CONFIG=cloud for all AWS images).
Obtaining the INT13 console output can be very cumbersome, since there
is no direct way to read from an AWS volume. The simplest current
approach is to stop the instance under test, detach its root volume,
and reattach the volume to a Linux instance in the same region.
Add a utility script aws-int13con to retrieve the INT13 console output
by creating a temporary snapshot, reading the first block from the
snapshot, and extracting the INT13 console partition content.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
AMI names must be unique within a region. Add a --overwrite option
that allows an existing AMI of the same name to be deregistered (and
its underlying snapshot deleted).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow both x86_64 and arm64 images to be imported in a single import
command, thereby allowing for e.g.
make CONFIG=cloud EMBED=config/cloud/aws.ipxe bin/ipxe.usb
make CONFIG=cloud EMBED=config/cloud/aws.ipxe \
CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu- bin-arm64-efi/ipxe.usb
../contrib/cloud/aws-import -w amilist.txt -p \
bin/ipxe.usb bin-arm64-efi/ipxe.usb
This simplifies the process of generating a single amilist.txt file
for inclusion in the documentation at https://ipxe.org/howto/ec2
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The AWS console user interface provides no convenient way to sort AMIs
by creation date.
Provide a default AMI name constructed from the current date and CPU
architecture, to simplify the task of finding the most recent iPXE AMI
in a given AWS region.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add an option to generate the amilist.txt list of current AMI images
as included in the EC2 documentation at https://ipxe.org/howto/ec2
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add a utility that can be used to upload an iPXE disk image to AWS EC2
as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For example:
make CONFIG=cloud EMBED=config/cloud/aws.ipxe bin/ipxe.usb
../contrib/cloud/aws-import -p -n "iPXE 1.21.1" bin/ipxe.usb
Uploads are performed in parallel across all regions, and use the EBS
direct APIs to avoid the need to store temporary files in S3 or to run
VM import tasks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown