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I've been researching EC2 over at Amazon Web Services and the website notes:

"You are also empowered to use our bundling tools to upload your own operating systems."

Now I've been trying to find out if the only Windows version that is supported is Windows Server 2003 or if I would be able to virtualize an older version of Windows and mash it into an AMI?

Is that possible? Has anyone achieved it?

Thanks for all help you SOer's can provide.

Joe

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EC2 only allows you to bundle your own open source *nix operating systems. They won't let you run your own copy of Windows because of licensing issues.

Scrappydog
A: 

only if you load a *nix platform with vmware then load windows onto a vm

Russ Bradberry
A: 

that would be double virtualization!