Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 08:55:56 +0800 From: Gavin Mu <gavin.mu@qq.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: "virtualization@FreeBSD.org" <virtualization@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: anyone used AliYun cloud? Message-ID: <CD6800FF-B56A-4BB6-81FA-E1C80D79E4CC@qq.com> In-Reply-To: <556B2B93.4050305@freebsd.org> References: <556A9F88.80406@freebsd.org> <48CDFA47-08B8-47A5-82C7-E3A8171042CE@qq.com> <556B2B93.4050305@freebsd.org>
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This is a little long story... We have one product based on FreeBSD, and som= eones thought it is difficult to deploy on some popular clouds, especially i= n China, such as QingCloud and Aliyun, all provide Linux and Windows images b= ut not FreeBSD. First I tried on QingCloud, who uses KVM, and FreeBSD can run, but it failed= to be saved as an image. =46rom the communication with QingCloud engineers,= I knew they use guestfs and can not recognize UFS filesystem. Several days ago, I tried Aliyun, who use Xen. FreeBSD can run also, and can= also be saved as an image, but VM provisioning failed. Their engineer told m= e that the file system has been changed and can not work. Later I tried to make a dual OS image, with 2GB Ubuntu on ext2 as the first M= BR primary partition, and the second one as FreeBSD, VM provisioning can wor= k now. I believe the ext2 partition can be reduced, but it must be very careful to n= ot break VM provisioning. Both QingCloud and Aliyun use the technology to write the initial configurat= ions to guest file system during VM provisioning, the difference is QingClou= d do checks when saving images, and Aliyun not. I am planning to try QingClo= ud again with the dual OS solution. We have also built an internal channel with Aliyun guys recently, but they d= id not tell the release date for FreeBSD support (business reason maybe). Regards, Gavin Mu > On May 31, 2015, at 23:41, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >> On 5/31/15 6:06 PM, Gavin Mu wrote: >> They use guestfs to do VM provisioning, and FreeBSD support is not ready t= o public yet. >>=20 >> If FreeBSD must be used, one workaround is to keep the first MBR partitio= n as Linux ext2, and write some scripts to read configurations from Linux. >=20 > thanks.. > Firstly, How do you know this? (I don't disbelieve it, I just want to know= where you learned this information so I can look there too for more informa= tion). > Secondly, is your comment "is not ready to public yet" talking about gues= tfs or aliyun? and can you expand on "yet"? >=20 > Julian >=20 >>=20 >> Regards, >> Gavin Mu >>=20 >>> On May 31, 2015, at 13:43, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>> Aliyun cloud is alibaba's amazon cloud competitor. Also uses Xen. >>> They offer Linux and windows of course but nothing in FreeBSD. >>> Has anyone looked at it? It's coming up with $JOB as a question vs Free= BSD. >>>=20 >>> Julian >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@fre= ebsd.org" >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >=20
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