CentOS 6.5 (x86_64) - Release Media
CentOS.org | 6.5 - 2013-12-01Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.5 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
dmesg, top, vi not run in aws ec2 centos 6.5
Created several instances in singapore region with centos 6.5 64bit, some of commands like dmesg, top, vi not run, console got hang.
This issue still persist from last september 2014.
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zombie
why after running this one with t1 micro the server keep lag 100% and saw 2 zombie in process... nothing install yet.
Is this a serious installation?
So this is comming from centos.org directly so I supposed (wrongly) the installation was a state of the art install for a centos distro, but it isn't.
Login with root permitted, basic tools missing (see lsof), key for centos repo failing to validate,... and what's more frightening ... no partitioning at all. And by at all I mean that everything is on the / partition and actually disk hasn't a partition table at all...system is installed into /dev/xvde directly
A complete mess! One star as I'm unable to put 0.
Love Centos, but not the AMI
Centos folks should take a loot at Amazon Linux to make this AMI useful.
1- Cloud-Init not installed, how do you expect User Data to be passed to the instance and setup automatically?
We don't want to create an AMI from this AMI, we automate everything with Chef and want to be able to always use your latest posted AMIs.
This is major deficiency.
This an an AMI right? what is the use of an Amazon Image if it does not conform to Amazon way of working things.
2- No ability to resize the root partition (See Dennis Atanassov's and Boingo Labs comments)
3- Not able to detach the boot volume and attach it to another instance (see John Pese's comments) to investigate issues or fix problems.
4- Not fond of allowing root login, but it could have been addressed post instance creation in chef scripts if cloud-init was there. (ideally a sudo enabled user should be the default account to to start with)
Otherwise this image would have gotten 5 stars.
Thanks
Upsetting Marketplace Restriction
Let me start out by saying CentOS is a great operating system, it is what I have used for years; it handles everything I throw at; my go-to server operating system.
The reason why I am giving this 1 star is simply that there is a marketplace restriction on this AMI preventing you from mounting the root volume to another instance. This is horribly inconvenient. If something causes the instances not to boot correctly you must put in a ticket with AWS support to have this restriction lifted in order to troubleshoot.
Personally I do not understand why this restriction would be put in place, although it is rare I need to mount the root volume elsewhere, if it does happen it is EXTREMELY frustrating. To my knowledge this is not explained anywhere in the description of the AMI. Having made several AMIs based off of this product prior to finding out this restriction I am pretty angry.
If this AMI did not have this restriction this would be a 5-star review.