From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 17:17:03 2010 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 074D010656A9 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:17:03 +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 A6A80162DA8 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8878 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2010 17:17:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Oct 2010 17:17:02 -0000 Message-ID: <4CCDA48E.3050200@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:17:02 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100803 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zladivliba Voskuy References: <88955623-5D2F-453A-B7EF-9E1058370B14@onapp.com> , <4CCD8DF6.8050804@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on EC2 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: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:17:03 -0000 On 10/31/10 10:03, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: > I'm trying to shake whatever I can to make whatever possible happen. > Good thing you replied. Do you have any idea of a schedule when we could > be seeing FreeBSD on EC2 ? I've been working on this from time to time over the past couple of years. I have some other work I need to do in the short term but some time in the next couple of weeks I hope to work on this some more. > Opensolaris is dead, so apart from Linux no other Unix run in EC2 ; so I > think this would be a good thing for FreeBSD to be there as much a good > thing for Amazon to open up to other OSes than Linux/Windows. How much > work is needed to make this happen ? Amazon is completely open to having other operating systems available on EC2 (at least, as far as I can tell -- I don't work for Amazon and this is just my opinion from talking to them). The problems have been technical, mostly due to FreeBSD's Xen code being in generally poor condition. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid