From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 02:24:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D3F657 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-0602-freebsd-xen=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o3.shared.sendgrid.net (o3.shared.sendgrid.net [208.117.48.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2A098FC0C for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:24:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h=from :mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=MLOC/0l3UafNb4W9UixTtk/Zwl8=; b=k1vCjBQm7cFcQaYBK /7wrXGV7tpYL9GIvqqzlFxrrIpCYjVQnfvktb8y4rwGr/S91M3KjXuwVtfh50odl SquB0l137I0zoR8sNm+CDKNyBBq04JGDNboSWSFPa3lxZHL6YEQeROz467aMZXdT ugpotIgKP2Xgj9rWGIDYzKxn1I= Received: by 10.4.35.202 with SMTP id mf34.32365.50AC3B492 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:24:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.60.208.13]) by None (SG) with ESMTP id 50ac3b48.42cf.23adb66 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:24:08 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 54032 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2012 02:24:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by ec2-107-20-205-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2012 02:24:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 10765 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2012 02:23:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 21 Nov 2012 02:23:07 -0000 Message-ID: <50AC3B0B.5080700@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:23:07 -0800 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121014 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD in AWS Marketplace X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sendgrid-EID: RUbAm5H8PjswBj/QH+sYVehaJogg3iBnZcyVi1bw/IxMoJdo67CrKLLJIYQjL7GuUB3ViNIVXxB+cdlj0Gubp9UMombAr5TvL822ZTCGlUIQ7xB/iliBC41Tntw0BqvQ X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:24:16 -0000 Hi all, Another small piece of progress in the ongoing FreeBSD/EC2 saga -- I've managed to get FreeBSD into the curated "Amazon Web Services Marketplace" for cluster compute and high-I/O instance types. These run HVM normally and thus don't need you to pay the "windows tax" which applies to running FreeBSD on most other instance types. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK For now it's just 9.0-RELEASE; I didn't want to bother the Amazon folks with the BETA and RC images, but I'll make sure 9.1-RELEASE also gets into the AWS Marketplace when it's released. I'm continuing to nag at EC2 folks about finding a way for FreeBSD to run on all the other instance types without paying the Windows tax. I would not be surprised if seeing more people using the existing FreeBSD options (either on HPC instances via the Marketplace, or on other instance types via the images listed on my website) would help to convince Amazon that this should be a priority. ;-) -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid