On May 18, 2015 11:29 AM, "Antti Kantee" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18/05/15 08:55, Andrew Stuart wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas welcome. >> >> >> To be more specific - is there some way to bake a filesystem into the image? > > > Not yet, but if some things had worked out differently yesterday, there would have been now. I'll expedite that. > > What sort of "top level" image do you need? For my stuff, I was initially planning on simply using a ISO and then putting data images onto that ISO and mounting them as part of the boot process. It's sort of a hack, but dealing with files is easier than dealing with partition tables. Plus, we can transparently fix it later. > > Related: you obviously need to mount the root file system, so what sort of mass storage devices do you see data images as on EC2? xenblk, virtio or something else? > > I also assume that you can't use xenstore on EC2, so you probably need to bring the json-based baremetal config over to the Xen platform. I think it's better to use json config everywhere and just transport it from the host to the guest with xenstore on xl and as part of the root image on EC2. Martin: do you have thoughts about this or some special love for the old code with which you pioneered the rumprun concept? ;) >
It might be easier to just run bare metal on AWS. All current instance types support HVM. They also support PV on HVM but you should be able to get started with just emulated devices. (Avoid the high performance networking as ixgbvf is not working yet in NetBSD its being worked on). Justin
