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I can't find any official announcement of it, but it looks like there are now official HVM AMIs available with the release of 7.4: https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2Image/Wheezy

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If you're running Debian on EC2, do you have the problem where restart from within the instance doesn't complete? (Have you found a way around it?)

Edit: Not sure whether there was a real problem before (vs PEBKAC), but the new images _do_ reboot successfully (takes about 2 minutes). Now to get systemd running...!

No, I'm not noticed this. That said, in the past (2years+) I have contacted AWS support about an instance that wouldn't start and was told shutting down from within an instance would normally work, but was not officially supported.

I think they were just looking for a scapegoat in that particular case.

Thanks.

For anyone reading along, reboot does now work, and I was just able to install systemd (apt-get update, apt-get install systemd, edit /etc/default/grub, edit /etc/fstab to remove the systemd-unsupported nobootwait line, update-grub, init 6). Thank you Debian cloud team :-)

Ah. The debian-cloud mailing list announcement for the new images just landed in my inbox. The archive[1] has yet to update.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2014/02/threads.html

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