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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:06:06 +0000
From:      Carsten Heesch <ch@sysconfig.org.uk>
To:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types
Message-ID:  <0E8D94F8-8A77-43CF-AE2A-E761C9EE74E4@sysconfig.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4F14AA60.1090507@freebsd.org>
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>=20
> Details at
> =
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-16-FreeBSD-now-on-all-EC2-instance=
-types.html


That's fantastic news! Really great stuff, Colin, especially the support =
for m1.small instances!

Just two questions if I may, with regards to the m1.small AMI in =
particular:-

There's a folder ec2-bits in the root directory, which contains a bunch =
of patches. =46rom your blog post I gather that they will not (much =
longer) be required if one was to build their own kernel?

On the same subject: The kernel running in that AMI is apparently =
i386/XENHVM:

FreeBSD ip-10-30-30-11 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 16 =
18:25:55 UTC 2012     =
root@ip-10-17-42-118:/usr/obj/i386.i386/usr/src/sys/XENHVM  i386

The csup'ed source tree does not contain such configuration. It does for =
amd64. And there's a XEN configuration for i386. But no XENHVM =
configuration for i386.

# find /usr/src/sys -name 'XEN*'
/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/XENHVM
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/XEN

The AMI you provided runs just fine, but there'll be a time when an =
update may be required... :)


Thanks again!=20

Cheers
C.






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