From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 1 12:07:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A741065693 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:07:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luke.marsden@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB258FC17 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so1279752eye.9 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:07:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=A/jqqvaqD3fpYoZC/N/8QBTUp77ybXASaMHuyYyygqo=; b=GftEfqqFRlxutymz1x0LEm6j5G9UHuVqZe0Tm95OuUcAeuQ9EcHBT+QRG1XagzTOxl hEQUM08SYS/qbMD1ZU5y5KWyeeVTphcmm1OazsFdwsEjJ47liQm/F7pLB04wdggu61Tx 0Hl6jkH4GMXOgvOWRFp2QJrAXuD9tMCE0PDmc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=wSb776UOe0CEkXT2nnuNUc85FjzQGezJFSm3rbYz3UMHFY64IUuSVi6RIKM594yVQm P5VYR3/TcomsozB9MlPh3Iu79FVX5+mIteh7Q4G0WW7fcyIPqEfI+DBNue8OM2yuoYJD +L0hD3UHiCz1GHSfB9M8OJVrEmV+84LUmj96U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: luke.marsden@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.89.213 with SMTP id c63mr1952572wef.211.1259667452321; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:37:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4AEF23FE.90604@gladserv.com> <4AF02B06.8090209@gladserv.com> <1258276895.3614.15.camel@glow> <4B0043B5.20601@tenebras.com> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:37:32 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e44e6cf174415481 Message-ID: From: Luke Marsden To: "K. Macy" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Xen domU ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:07:31 -0000 Hi Kip, Thanks for your reply. I'll see what I can do about getting the precise version (which I believe is indeed 3.0.3) and patches for you. Amazon say on http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ that "we work with our partners and community to provide you with the most choice possible. You are also empowered to use our bundling tools to upload your own operating systems"... so I'll attempt to hold them to that :) I'm also happy to contribute a paid EC2 account for development (within reason) since if we can't precisely replicate locally the environment they run then I imagine the next-best thing would be for you to have access to one of their instances which you can upload OS images to and debug FreeBSD as an EC2 DomU that way. Would you be interested in that? Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help / facilitate. I'll post again when I've got in touch with Amazon. Cheers, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:40 AM, K. Macy wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > > > I second the notion - could someone please articulate what > > the problems are with running FreeBSD as a DomU? > > > > Being able to run a 8.x instance on EC2 would be very helpful. > > > > Amazon runs a very old Redhat version of Xen and they aren't forthcoming > about the specific version, presumably out of security concerns. > > 3.0.3 doesn't support linear page tables and thus requires some pmap > futzing. Apart from that I don't have enough specifics to go on. If someone > told me the precise version and gave me the corresponding RH patches I'd be > much more interested. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > > -Kip > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-xen-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >