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Sathish
Sathish

Reputation: 121

AWS: error while creating AMI from a debian 10 iso - Unsupported kernel version

We have a custom Debian10 (buster) ISO and want to create an AMI using this iso.

We followed the steps from AWS documentation Importing a VM as an image using VM Import/Export but getting the below error :

ClientError: Unsupported kernel version 4.19.0-17-cloud-amd64

We tried the same process with the stock Debian10 iso too and got the same error.

Steps followed:

  1. Export image from VMWare

  2. Upload the image to S3

  3. Import the VM using the below command

    aws ec2 import-image --description "My server VM" --disk-containers "file://containers.json"

containers.json

[
{
   "Description": "Debian 10",
   "Format": "ova",
   "UserBucket": {
   "S3Bucket": "iso-to-ami",
   "S3Key": "debian-10.ova"
}
]

Check upload status

aws ec2 describe-import-image-tasks --import-task-ids import-ami-xxxxxxxxxxx

Error message

{
"ImportImageTasks": [
{
   "Description": "Debian-10-custom latest OVA",
   "ImportTaskId": "import-ami-xxxxxxxxx",
   "LicenseType": "BYOL",
   "SnapshotDetails": [
{
   "DeviceName": "/dev/sdf",
   "DiskImageSize": 1271036416.0,
   "Format": "VMDK",
   "Status": "completed",
   "UserBucket": {
      "S3Bucket": "iso-to-ami",
      "S3Key": "debian-10.ova"
   }
}
],
   "Status": "deleted",
   "StatusMessage": "ClientError: Unsupported kernel version 4.19.0-17-cloud-amd64"
}
]
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1867

Answers (1)

Sathish
Sathish

Reputation: 121

We checked with the AWS tech team regarding this issue and got the input that AWS supports only Debian 6 to 8, so Debian 10 is not supported.

Our main goal was to use a stripped down version of Debian 10 in EC2.

Alternatives suggested by the tech team for this approach :

  • Option 1 : Use CloudEndure an AWS Application Migration Service to replicate the local VM (with the stripped down version of debian) to AWS.

  • Option 2 : Create an EC2 instance from Debian 10 AMI available in AWS Marketplace and strip down all the libraries except the ones we require.

Upvotes: 3

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