From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 17:11:07 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 1CE03106566B for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:11:07 +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 BAA741539F0 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9631 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2010 17:11:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 2010 17:11:06 -0000 Message-ID: <4D07A52A.1080208@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:06 -0800 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: luke@hybrid-logic.co.uk References: <4D066D52.2080100@freebsd.org> <1292328289.26377.48.camel@pow> In-Reply-To: <1292328289.26377.48.camel@pow> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , Luke Marsden , UK FreeBSD Users , team@hybrid-logic.co.uk 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: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:11:07 -0000 On 12/14/10 04:04, Luke Marsden wrote: > This is clearly an enormous milestone on the road to a stable FreeBSD 8 > AMI which I hope will eventually work in amd64 mode on the large EC2 > instances :-) I hope so too. :-) > Is this working with PV net and disk drivers? Presumably to run on EC2 > at all (notwithstanding their expensive cluster compute nodes which are > meant for HPC and which do run HVM) it must be in fully PV mode. This is fully PV, yes. > We at Hybrid Logic are very happy to provide testing, assistance and any > resources we can muster to help you in this effort. Probably the biggest thing you can do to help right now is to spin up a bunch of instances, throw some load at them, and see if you can get them to panic. :-) -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid