Comments on: The Next Plateau: VoIP Communications with Asterisk in Amazon’s EC2 Cloud

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:24:57 +0000

has anyone noticed that 'yum upgrade' fails when using the green AMI? I know that this a centos issue, however since the AMI is provided for people to use, could this be looked at? [WM: Never, ever run yum upgrade on any PIAF server unless instructed to do so after a security alert in the portal.]

By: Ayni

Ayni — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 19:33:53 +0000

I'm stuck at the beginning. I can't find PIAF in community AMI's. I tried other ways of searching for it but to not avail.. Any ideas? [WM: Here's a link.]

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:47:46 +0000

I am very happy you put this together. Been struggling for over a week to get one of these going. When I log in as root, it asks me for a password. Would you mind emailing me or posting the default root password? Stuck at the login screen. [WM: Please reread Your First Login section of the tutorial. It explains how to get root access.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:23:31 +0000

Cannot seem to resize using the snapshot/create new volume/attach new bigger volume methods commonly found for resizing Amazon EC2 root volumes.

When getting to the point of using resize2fs /dev/xvde1, the system returns an error that the volume is already resized even though its still 10GB in df -m and EC2 management console shows 30GB.

By: Ciarán

Ciarán — Sun, 26 May 2013 23:15:18 +0000

Mike – I’ve tried to copy the AMI using the AWS copy AMI feature. However when I launch it on the Irish server the Instance reachability check keeps failing. Do you know if it only works on US servers?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:47:48 +0000

Is it true each instance of this requires a NEW purchase of " Multi-Factor Authentication device"?

fiddle about with settings: @ 1 device
reinstall ready to go live: @ 2 devices now?

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:31:02 +0000

First of all, thanks very much to the author(s?) for that release!!

While trying:
cd /root
wget http://incrediblepbx.com/incrediblepbx11.gz
gunzip incrediblepbx11.gz
chmod +x incrediblepbx11
./incrediblepbx11

I’m getting:
This utility installs Incredible PBX 11.
Ooops. You aren’t running a 32-bit version of CentOS 6.
32-bit CentOS 6 is required for this release of Incredible PBX.

I got the GREEN AMI from Amazon EC2 in region US-est following this tutorial. Any idea how to get Incredible PBX 11 for 64-bit?

[WM: It’s been fixed. Just remove your old installer and download it again. Thanks for the heads up.]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:59:56 +0000

William, you can now copy the AMI yourself using the just announce AWS copy AMI feature. I did this for the US West coast. Just fire up an instance in the US N. Virginia location, then create an AMI from it, then copy your new AMI to the region of your choice.

By: William

William — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:43:37 +0000

Any chance of getting the AMI’s duplicated in the Sydney zone?

By: Peter Bata

Peter Bata — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:02:12 +0000

I see no mention of pricing! WM: It's complicated. :-)

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:25:32 +0000

Ballpark costs for hosting per month assuming 2-4 lines with normal usage?

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:06:16 +0000

minor typo- under the first time login section: "pwd" should be "passwd", no? [WM: Yes. Fixed. Thank you, Greg.]

By: Nerd Uno

Nerd Uno — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:46:53 +0000

PIONEERS: New PIAF-Green 64-bit AMI for Amazon EC2 now available with Asterisk 11.2.1 and FreePBX 2.11 http://nerd.bz/12LtKDM

By: Lynn Nielson

Lynn Nielson — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:07:32 +0000

running ./incrediblepbx10 displayed the last IP addresses I connection from instead of the external one running on EC2. I had to modify the incrediblepbx10 script and modify the 3rd line that began with externip=`pinky…` to externip=`curl -s -S –user-agent "Mozilla/4.0″ http://myip.pbxinaflash.com | awk ‘NR==2’`

btw, great job on getting this to EC2.

[WM: Thanks. Fixed.]

By: ultrabizweb

ultrabizweb — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:26:42 +0000

You could probably use qemu-img to convert the OVA image to vmdk, and then upload that to amazons vmimport http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/ site. This last week I used qemu-img to convert a kvm image to ova and it seemed to work ok. Hope this helps someone.

[WM: Looks like that is currently limited to Windows images, not Linux. Kinda weird considering the whole platform runs on Linux. 🙄 ]

By: Mark Gruber

Mark Gruber — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:57:05 +0000

This is great news Ward! I have been researching various attempts to use EC2 for a while and nobody seemed to have been successful in creating an image until now.

Is it possible to use an existing OVA image as the basis for one in EC2 (so we could try Green, for instance)?

Or how about installing one of the colors on a running Centos image in EC2 for maximum flexibility (since Amazon does not allow installing from an ISO)?

Really appreciate all the hard work it took to do this!

[WM: Thanks. Haven’t gotten to whether .ova images can be imported, but we’re working on it. The fact that EC2 images can be exported to .ova format gives us hope.]

By: Joel Macklow

Joel Macklow — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:22:28 +0000

First up, thanks so much for creating this AMI, Ward…great work. Further to Josh’s comment above, if anyone wants to have this AMI in another region, then you can spin up an instance in North Virginia and then snapshot it and transfer it to wherever you want :). Here is how: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/ebs-snapshot-copy.html

By: Josh Jacoby

Josh Jacoby — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:14:14 +0000

One item missing here is that the Community AMI you mention is available only in Amazon’s Northern Virginia region. I think this region comes up by default to new users.

[WM: Learn something every day. Thanks, Josh.]