From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Generating Amazon Machine Images from Guix? Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:01:31 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eehA6-00046a-Nu for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:01:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eehA3-0001AC-Lz for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:01:50 -0500 Received: from venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.30]:49266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eehA3-00019J-Bh for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:01:47 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5DC3811D7 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:01:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0j1Tj6MslAYj for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:01:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from HTCATWO.mdc-berlin.net (puck.citx.mdc-berlin.de [141.80.36.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:01:42 +0100 (CET) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Guix, I may need to provide Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) allowing the execution of a Guix package on the Amazon compute services. There only seems to be a very convoluted way to produce AMIs from raw virtual machine images[1], so I wonder if we could generate AMIs directly with Guix. Has anyone of you played with this successfully? [1]: https://www.wavether.com/2016/11/import-qcow2-images-into-aws -- Ricardo