From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 11:37:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB5C1065672 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luke@digital-crocus.com) Received: from mail.digital-crocus.com (node2.digital-crocus.com [91.209.244.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD5F8FC15 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:37:14 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dkselector; d=hybrid-logic.co.uk; h=Received:Received:Subject:From:Reply-To:To:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Organization:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Spam-Score:X-Digital-Crocus-Maillimit:X-Authenticated-Sender:X-Complaints:X-Admin:X-Abuse; b=A3WfkwcCvy/bPWArbDpEoBxgn/857OHCLsTN8dvHB1Ol0aUqX3tIWlV5SJzd9y4Bd1Gwb44PSa3w23K2plyCzoMRZTUKp5mRCJ0wQRVmXwp8CB0K8UBEZUT+iaKIm1Wp; Received: from luke by mail.digital-crocus.com with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1PCVlo-0002v8-LU for freebsd-xen@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:08:16 +0000 Received: from 127cr.net ([78.105.122.99] helo=[192.168.1.22]) by mail.digital-crocus.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1PCVln-0002ur-9s; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:08:16 +0000 From: Luke Marsden To: Zladivliba Voskuy , freebsd-xen@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <88955623-5D2F-453A-B7EF-9E1058370B14@onapp.com> , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Hybrid Web Cluster Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:13:05 +0000 Message-ID: <1288523585.8941.336.camel@pow> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Digital-Crocus-Maillimit: done X-Authenticated-Sender: luke X-Complaints: abuse@digital-crocus.com X-Admin: admin@digital-crocus.com X-Abuse: abuse@digital-crocus.com (Please include full headers in abuse reports) Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD on EC2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: luke@hybrid-logic.co.uk 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: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:37:14 -0000 On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 11:19 +0100, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: > > I'm just replying the thread to indicate that I've created a blog to join efforts building FreeBSD on EC2 ; if you have time and are interested about making this happen, inform me of your efforts, I'm trying to follow everything that's going on on the subject : http://freebsdec2.wordpress.com/ I know it's not quite EC2 (or Xen, so please excuse the posting to freebsd-xen) but until Kip Macy gets a chance to make it happen on EC2 we're using CloudSigma and ElasticHosts for FreeBSD in the cloud. They use KVM as a virtualisation platform and stock FreeBSD runs nicely on it, and their prices aren't too far off what EC2 provide. They've both got a very nice API too. The only tweak you need to make is to set hw.mca.enable="0" on the FreeBSD boot prompt. CloudSigma have a library image (like an AMI) which includes this tweak (disclosure: I published this disk image). See http://www.cloudsigma.com/about-us/press-releases/179 for CloudSigma's recent press release about FreeBSD support and see http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/39c2cdd1d09b8f5f for info on the MCA bug and the fix. ElasticHosts are worth a mention too: they use a very similar platform but have data centres is San Antonio, Texas and London, UK. CloudSigma are based in Zurich, Switzerland only. Hope this is of some assistance. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Mobile: +447791750420