From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 05:12:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0E31065704 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:12:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from xps.daemonology.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53E001555E2 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:12:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2142 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2011 05:12:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jun 2011 05:12:55 -0000 Message-ID: <4E0179D7.2050009@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:12:55 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101220 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Fordham References: <4D066D52.2080100@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives! 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: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:12:56 -0000 On 06/21/11 18:15, Chris Fordham wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:00:34 +1100, Colin Percival wrote: >> Thanks to a month of bug fixing and a lot of help from Amazon, FreeBSD >> is now >> available on EC2: >> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html >> >> Only for 9.0-CURRENT and only t1.micro instances so far, though -- but >> we're >> moving in the right direction. :-) >> > A belated big thanks again for this Colin! > > Just wondering if there are any updates or developments post December > 2010's initial release? Yes. The current status of FreeBSD/EC2 is at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ > I am an engineer at RightScale and a couple of us that are FreeBSD users > are looking at creating RightImages for the 5 regions. > We'd like to offer our help and support if needed. I've released 8.2-RELEASE AMIs for t1.micro instances for all 5 regions. There's also an 8.2ish AMI for cc1.4xlarge in us-east-1. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid