Comment 6 for bug 435140

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:36:13AM -0000, Eric Hammond wrote:
> I just tried using euca2ools for the first time to bundle a running
> Karmic instance. Apart from the bugs that make it not work at all (bug
> 450044, bug 479823, bug 479836) I also found a number of other
> incompatibilities which make it look like more changes are needed than
> just ec2-* symlinks.
>
> For example,
>
> - euca-upload-bundle requires setting S3_URL instead of just defaulting
> to https://s3.amazonaws.com as ec2-upload-bundle does.
>
> - euca-register requires setting $EC2_ACCESS_KEY and $EC2_SECRET_KEY
> instead of using $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_ID as
> ec2-register does.
>
> - euca-register requires setting $EC2_URL instead of defaulting to
> https://ec2.amazonaws.com as ec2-register does.
>
> I haven't tried the euca2ools equivalents for the EC2 API tools, but
> given the above, I'd guess there's a ways to go before tossing in
> symlinks will make euca2ools be command line compatible.
>
> Feel free to copy the above points to new bug reports if compatibility
> is the goal.

For any issues you find with euca2ools which cause you problems on EC2,
please file bugs using "ubuntu-bug euca2ools" and mention the bug number
here for tracking.

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 - mdz