Comment 5 for bug 429169

Revision history for this message
Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 429169] Re: ec2: Include kernel modules in AMIs

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:11:51PM -0000, Eric Hammond wrote:
> > there presumably aren't very many modules for the EC2 kernel.
>
> I guess this raises the questions of what modules we are talking about,
> and this is an area where I wouldn't know what to cut out. I personally
> depend on some which may not be considered part of the core modules
> including: fuse, xfs, dm_mod, sha256, dm_crypt

The -virtual kernel, I believe, includes all of the usual stuff that the
-server kernel ships, but subtracts out the hardware drivers (since they are
not used in virtual guests).

I think we should start with the -virtual config, and can add things if
needed from there.

--
 - mdz