From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 07:35:18 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 6FB72106567B for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:35:18 +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 8C352151A65 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1549 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2011 07:35:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jun 2011 07:35:03 -0000 Message-ID: <4E019B27.80202@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:35:03 -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> <4E0179D7.2050009@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 07:35:18 -0000 On 06/21/11 22:34, Chris Fordham wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:12:55 +1000, Colin Percival wrote: >> 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. > > Thank you kindly Colin. We are wondering about the limited instance > types, the issues on why this is so and if there any plans to support more? I"m doing my best. ;-) > In addition, is it possible to get the build source or otherwise to > build the AMIs from scratch? The t1.micro instances were built from 8.2-RELEASE. The source tree used for cc1.4xlarge was slightly modified and is included in the AMI. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid