From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 19:15:09 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 BAEA7EE6 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:15:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f50.google.com (mail-oa0-f50.google.com [209.85.219.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DF7314 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id l20so4950220oag.23 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 12:15:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=BkyAbS4BQuyEvoRuFbsSIq8yjtumsXXWqVAtFeWdSW8=; b=OxVjNZacwNbT+lQmxZK/70J7ARTG2yQ+KS1b+ZK7NNDq8s8LKpJVT1PqEVGxOdqHXd rFo3eYftqeZz9vt3Ohy+Ui2vRJm0sAiVIwy1Bm0eQvSe6AssStkp2P8RTqnL2kaUbhr1 56+BCJUCNnS2tnSNTfAQ/+B/slue4NaMs+ZfEp/L+r3STeVI/kQFFfISZ2ncS51V43ni HYrme4men4ZlAkCuFKia0h0tb5KDysH1rESaxSfTx91lDk0JBLYWRshzk1km0OKIgFg+ OtlYMy9k600lCgl546c4+JIkMhwDbZas7x3MgKI/lNIaA837HBKA9Bz9ImbMNdjNLaCz IKiw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.41.136 with SMTP id f8mr13723559oel.11.1368472116935; Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.46.167 with HTTP; Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51913821.4040104@freebsd.org> References: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> <51913821.4040104@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing From: Michael Sierchio To: Colin Percival X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnh3Mqm5HFPbqHl77dCjHXn15kA8sY3ng5uLIPeR9KSrRVZRaS27SKpnaac1jU+MI3Kcfm7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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 19:15:09 -0000 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. 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. - M On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/13/13 11:52, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > I think should be encouraged. We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run > > FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute > > instances. Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM > available > > for all instance types before this happens? > > Err... my AMIs run on all EC2 instance types. On some you have to pay the > Windows rate, that's all. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid >