Playing with Fedora on AWS I ended up needing HVM image yet all available images were Paravirt so I needed to “create” HVM image.

Thanks to helpful advise from ServerFault it turned out to be relatively simple (however I can’t say it was straightforward) using web console:

• using PV image create EBS-backed instance instanceA
• adjust instance config as necessary
• take a snapshot of instanceA – snapA
• from snapA create image specifying HVM as virt type
• done

I have also found Pyhon-based CLI which has proved somewhat entertaining. One thing not mentioned is that to use it you have to create group for admins (it’ll ask for type of permissions for that group), then create/assign user to that group. Use “aws ec2 configure”.