Image import of Photon OS v5 AMI (RAW image) fails (using AWS-CLI v2)

Open usui-tk opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Describe the bug

I used the Tar.gz file available at the following URL to create an AMI for Photon OS v5.

[URL] https://packages.vmware.com/photon/5.0/GA/ami/photon-ami-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.tar.gz

Image import to AWS was performed using "AWS-CLI v2". This is because "AMI Tools" including "ec2-bundle-image command" depends on the Ruby execution environment and does not work on the latest operating systems.

[Set up the AMI tools] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/set-up-ami-tools.html]

[Installing or updating the latest version of the AWS CLI] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html

I tried to import a RAW image using "aws ec2 import-image" in AWS-CLI v2, but the following error message was displayed and the image could not be imported successfully. *In the past, I have also tried to do this with Photon OS v4, but the import process ended abnormally with the same error message.

[error message]

# aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids import-ami-0fd6fbc2639a4274f
{
    "ImportImageTasks": [
        {
            "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-0fd6fbc2639a4274f",
            "SnapshotDetails": [
                {
                    "DeviceName": "/dev/sde",
                    "DiskImageSize": 8589934592.0,
                    "Format": "RAW",
                    "Status": "completed",
                    "UserBucket": {
                        "S3Bucket": "aws-vmimport-123456789",
                        "S3Key": "photon-ami-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.raw"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "Status": "deleted",
            "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Multiple different grub/menu.lst files found.",
            "Tags": []
        }
    ]
}

Therefore, we would like the image files distributed to be modified so that images can be imported with modern operating systems and AWS tools (AWS-CLI v2). Alternatively, we would like the community to implement an official AMI distribution.

Thank you in advance.

Reproduction steps

1. Set up AWS-CLI v2 and make it available

[Installing or updating the latest version of the AWS CLI]
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html

2. Download Photon OS v5 and execute image import


mkdir /data

cd /data

wget https://packages.vmware.com/photon/5.0/GA/ami/photon-ami-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.tar.gz

tar -xvf photon-ami-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.tar.gz

aws s3 cp /data/*.raw s3://aws-vmimport-123456789
(The S3 bucket name above is a sample)

aws ec2 import-image --disk-containers Format=raw,UserBucket="{S3Bucket=aws-vmimport-123456789,S3Key=photon-ami-5.0-dde71ec57.x86_64.raw}"
(The S3 bucket name above is a sample)

3. Check the status of the import process using the "aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks " command


aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids import-ami-123456789
(The above image import task ID is a samplee)

Expected behavior

Additional context

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Jun 24 '23 18:06 usui-tk