Comment 16 for bug 439868

I consider this bug fix-released at this point. Builds at http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/karmic/ are now 2G filesystem images. Their sizes are (20091012):
182M karmic-uec-amd64.tar.gz
173M karmic-uec-i386.tar.gz

That is down from a 10G filesystem with download sizes of (20091007):
602M ubuntu-uec-karmic-amd64.img.gz
592M ubuntu-uec-karmic-i386.img.gz

The resize-uec-image tool can resize those with basically no ill effects.

The only applicable change to vm-builder that isn't in the karmic-packaged version is:
1. run apt-get clean
2. change ec2 image sizes from 10G to 2G