I’m configuring myself a VMWare virtual machine running (well *instaling* right now) CentOS-4.4. Rather than worry about what to (and not to) install I’ve just opted for the 4CD “Everything” method. Hey… It works ;). I will be using this virtual machine to work with the EC2 tools. (yea… go figure. I work with Linux Servers, and BSD servers, but I dont have a Linux desktop. (I have stuck, recently, with OSX and Windows)

Yes… I know… Windows… But some things it’s just needed for. Blech

Soon I should have detailed accounts of running Amazons preconfgured instances, followed by accounts of creating a custom image and sending that back to amazon to run as an instance