From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 08:59:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB193106566C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319DB8FC08 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6F90Ruk004366 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:00:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4E200171.5060900@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:59:29 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: freebsd on rackspace X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:59:31 -0000 On 15/07/2011 06:57, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I just talked to rackspace tech support on an other issue and they > said they plan to offer FreeBSD as a option after the upgrade from > Zend Classic to Zend Enterprise (ETA not known).... but they did say > we as a client are free to overwrite any slice on the virtual disk and > then use the console to configure GRUB to boot that kernel... any > ideas on how to proceed from this general advice to an actual > implementation? ..... they also said if we did get it to work before > the Zend upgrade was complete they would use our solution as the > standard one I don't know rackspace's service, but if its xen or kvm in HVM mfsbsd is proabably the way to go. I just tested with a centos6 vm on a KVM hypervisor. wget -O /boot/mfsbsd.iso http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/iso/mfsbsd-8.2-zfsv28-amd64.iso yum -y install syslinux cp /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk /boot add the following to the bottom of /boot/grub/grub.conf title fbsd root (hd0,0) kernel /memdisk iso initrd /mfsbsd.iso and make that the active entry in grub, and voila a freebsd system running from a memory disk, with DHCP and sshd allowing a root login to do what you want with the host system. As i said, I can confirm that works on a Centos5 KVM hypervisor if starting from a centos6 VM, I havent tested further. The downside is that its DHCP not a static IP (I assume you can recompile the mfsbsd image to do what you want it to.) and as I dont use grub much i dont know if you can set the mfsbsd iso to be a one time boot in case of issues. you could also try http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html dont know if that still works. Vince > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"