[cs615asa] question about OmniOS r151020

[Tianxiao Yang]

Got that. Thanks a lot!
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 23:00 Josh Dolisca <jdolisca at stevens.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> ~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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