[cs615asa] question about OmniOS r151020

[Josh Dolisca]

Hello All,

To look for the image, you can filter through the public repository using
the "describe-images" subcommand of aws ec2. With the filter handle
"--filter", you can look for the image with the name "OmniOS r151020"

It took a while, but the following syntax for the filter handle can be seen
below to find the image needed for this assignment:

--filter "Name=name,Values='OmniOS r151020*'"

The trick is the wildcard character " * ". That allows you to search for
partially known strings and will find anything that matches, so you do not
have to have the full name of the AMI. The other thing is that you need to
use single quotes for strings with spaces

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~JoshErik Dolisca

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Jan Schaumann <jschauma at stevens.edu> wrote:

> szhong2 <szhong2 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> > You can find it in the "Community AMIs" section on the left.
>
> Please note this part of the homework assignment:
>
> ] Please note that we will only focus on using the command-line tools for
> ] EC2. That is, your HOWTO should describe the setup to use these tools
> ] and not how to use the browser based interface. Your documentation will
> ] not include sentences like "...then click on..." or "...select from the
> ] menu..." or anything like that.
>
> Thus, there is really no "on the left".
>
> Use the command-line utilities to find the right image.
>
> The full name of the image is indeed no "OmniOS r151020", but there is
> an image for this OS and version that you can find by searching for that
> substring.
>
> Again, your submission needs to describe how you found the image using
> the command-line tools, not the browser interface.
>
> -Jan
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Regards

Josh-Erik Dolisca
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