From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 10 02:43:51 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 C984A1065693; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1108FC08; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MwRN1-000Jir-AH; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:07:48 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A8035BD1C7; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 22:07:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4ACFEC6E.2030109@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:07:42 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd References: <77abe410908211256g44dd20d8o9b50c20357e63a6b@mail.gmail.com> <4A94CD0D.8070902@prgmr.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finishing up the xen port - would funding help? X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org 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: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:43:51 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Chadd wrote: > Give me a few days to get stuff together here and I'll see what I can > do in -head. > > Thanks for all your offers of support. > > adrian > [...] Hi everyone, I received an email from a contact @ Amazon AWS yesterday asking about the status of the FreeBSD Xen project. He and I connected earlier this year after a short exchange on Twitter and some emails about getting FreeBSD AMIs running on Amazon EC2. I told him that there was a thread on the freebsd-xen mailing list in August. My understanding is that the primary blocker is funding for the developers who have the skills required to bring the Xen support up to production quality. I also figured that it might take even more time to then port to the version of Xen used by Amazon. I hope to hear back from him soon with his thoughts. Obviously, it would be extremely helpful if Amazon funded the development, presuming there would be a long-term financial gain for them. If anyone has any feedback that I should relay to him, let me know. I also asked him if he wanted contact information for the FreeBSD/Xen developers and other folks who are involved in the project at a high level. I'll post back here if he does. Best regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKz+xu0sRouByUApARArKYAKCVziRDp71w977HHy2XpKxQsHgUXgCaA2fT RFxGu9dVA1s39MKn0+o6520= =Zg60 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----