* testing on amazon ec2 ami linux
@ 2011-08-04 21:24 Frank Ch. Eigler
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From: Frank Ch. Eigler @ 2011-08-04 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi -
Out of curiosity, and preparing for a networked systemtap
demonstration, I tried out Amazon's AWS EC2 service. They small
virtual machines for nearly-free and big ones for more $$. I tried
out just the freebie ones[1] for now, and these run Amazon AMI Linux,
a custom linux distribution similar to RHEL-6, but with a newer
kernel.
I tried out the 2011.02.1 beta. It turns out this distro is
well-stocked with everything a systemtap cloud experimenter may want:
yum access to development tools, debuginfo repositories, utrace in the
kernel, and a build of systemtap-1.4 itself.
Except for one bug[2], everything just works & fast, even perhaps fun.
- FChE
[1] http://aws.amazon.com/free/
[2] The kernel-debuginfo packages have a build bug resulting in
accidentally stripping the vmlinux file, so kernel.function probes
don't work, but this is being fixed as we speak.
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