Tag Archives: Kernel

New kernels coming to Amazon EC2

Posted on November 27, 2007 by

Up to now you could run any Linux distribution on Amazon EC2 but you could only run Amazon’s 2.6.16 kernel. Well strictly speaking there are two kernels: a 2.6.16.0 kernel for the 32-bit instances and a 2.6.16.33 kernel for the … Continue reading →

Posted in AWS, EC2 | Tagged , ,

Recompiling kernel modules for EC2 instances

Posted on August 7, 2007 by

Some time ago, I discovered that the version of the kernel that Amazon uses for its current infrastructure (linux 2.6.16) contains a bug in the lvm modules. This was a bummer to see since we are using LVM snapshotting facilities … Continue reading →

Posted in EC2 | Tagged , ,