[PVE-User] ProxMox on Amazon EC2

[Maurice Aubrey]

I have it on a medium instance and running it 24/7, it cost $105 last
month. We have around 10 CentOS VMs on it.

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:28 PM, admin at extremeshok.com
<admin at extremeshok.com> wrote:
> Would does the current instance cost you per month ?
>
> I've been considering as it's an easy way to add reliability etc
>
> And clients do love it when you mention amazon :)
>
> Sent from my iPhone 5
>
>> On 12 Nov 2013, at 8:24 AM, Maurice Aubrey <maurice.aubrey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I've seen various mentions of running ProxMox on Amazon EC2 but
>> haven't seen any recent info.
>>
>> I actually have an EC2 instance running ProxMox successfully but it's
>> on Squeeze.
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux proxmox 2.6.32-12-pve #1 SMP Tue May 15 06:02:20 CEST 2012
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I realize this is a completely unsupported configuration, but I've
>> found it useful for development.
>>
>> I week or so ago I tried using some of the newer Debian EC2 images
>> with pv-grub support, but had no luck. I started the instance and then
>> followed the instructions for installing ProxMox manually (e.g.,
>> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Wheezy)
>>
>> On boot, however, I kept getting errors about /dev/xvda not being found.
>>
>> Has anyone done this successfully with Debian 7? If not, anyone
>> interested in working with me to see if we can get one working?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Maurice
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