arch parameter is not passed by the image proxy during image install from store

[John Pugh]

When installing an image from the "Store" through the UEC console, the arch parameter is not passed and all images show up as x86_64. From a discussion with niemeyer, the proxy is not passing --arch during the bundle process.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Well, I'd see 2 problems with this
a.) the problem John brought up (describe-images shows confusing output)
b.) on a i686 cloud (ie, with *real i686 hardware*, or nodes running i386 ubuntu as their OS) they *may* refuse to run the image.

I can't verify 'b', but it would make sense to me to say "I can't run that" if the node was i386 and the image was marked as x86_64.

This is probably SRU worthy if 'b' is a problem, but I think 'a' is just an annoyance.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

UEC i386 apparently doesn't seem to mind trying to boot an image marked x86_64.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Moving this over to the image-store-proxy package. Nothing to be done in Eucalyptus, at this point.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

> I see in the web UI that the disk size for this type of VM ("small") is
> > 5Gb. Is that it?
> >
> > IIRC, I at one point had it set to a lower value, but then the VMs
> > wouldn't start, so I changed it to 5Gb a while ago.
> then you should have swap, so what did you mean by they don't have swap?

I mean the instance only has the RAM I gave it (256Mb) and no swap enabled, i.e., the output of "free" shows zero for swap.

It may be that there is just a missing swapon. Let me check by creating another instance quickly...

root@192:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 5415 MB, 5415895040 bytes
4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 82640 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b20b6

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 32769 2097152+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 32769 71894 2504000+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 71894 82640 687775+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

root@192:~# free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247984 185772 62212 0 4316 91716
-/+ buffers/cache: 89740 158244
Swap: 0 0 0

root@192:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt ext2 defaults 0 0
root@192:~#
root@192:~# swapon /dev/sda3
root@192:~# free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 247984 186072 61912 0 4364 91744
-/+ buffers/cache: 89964 158020
Swap: 687764 0 687764
root@192:~#

Yep, looks like it's a missing swapon and/or entry in /etc/fstab.

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