From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 19:13:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DCACBC for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:13:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-0602-freebsd-xen=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o3.shared.sendgrid.net (o3.shared.sendgrid.net [208.117.48.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B7572FF for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:13:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h=from :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=J/j23ylGEW4tJJsVHqGeUo Fnp48=; b=VrDiCJRR8fjGSIKaIMqVl935imLqB2pcYckcj+uaCrkMyckv2i37nI XGMscIWRc0+GfgGdK+e451qR8V78JEm+CQtjPuA1Pb2tNChPQmBff1sN5SnCndko Kv4JtbGoMp2aoucnGSsEUZiT2kBS95NAjv9ya1tM/fyewS5ku6p1U= Received: by 10.42.80.135 with SMTP id filter-069.27218.51913B702 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.60.208.13]) by mi17 (SG) with ESMTP id 51913b70.70d2.17aded4 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 14:13:52 -0500 (CST) Received: (qmail 45536 invoked from network); 13 May 2013 19:13:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by ec2-107-20-205-189.compute-1.amazonaws.com with ESMTP; 13 May 2013 19:13:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 55444 invoked from network); 13 May 2013 19:13:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 13 May 2013 19:13:46 -0000 Message-ID: <51913B6A.9040701@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:13:46 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130406 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Sierchio Subject: Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing References: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> <51913821.4040104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SG-EID: RUbAm5H8PjswBj/QH+sYVehaJogg3iBnZcyVi1bw/IwdY5+U+2g51gTSyrQF+k8eqY2jkWYxn9QT52MKH/DwQ0Gu+MPQbozbh0PQuC7QEBTWZKmfnI5TlJoI5jZo8D/7B7ZBcBZdvGpQ62W06x/IfQ== Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , "xen-users@lists.xen.org" , xen-devel , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:13:53 -0000 On 05/13/13 12:08, Michael Sierchio wrote: > The Windoze tax is unacceptable for a number of reasons - the primary reason is > that I'm not running Windows. I don't think the licensing scheme is unfair for > those actually running Windows, mind you. Right, it's definitely annoying having to pay more -- I just wanted to point out that the ability does exist, if you're willing to pay the price. > At the AWS Summit, an assertion was made that HVM support might be coming soon > for all instance types for *NIX OSes. I hope that's true. Was it indeed? I must not have been present for that... it certainly would be good news. Certainly all the new instance types they've released in the past few years have had UNIX HVM support. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid