>>I'd need to discuss with AWS engineers whether or not it makes sense for >>them. Hopefully at the Xen Summit in Seattle in August.
I contacted Jeff Barr and Colin Percival when digging in to the networking issues I was trying to resolve. Jeff is getting back to me with people at AWS with specific expertise in this area and they’ll likely be happy to help. I asked if they could also give us some usage credits for AWS and this seems likely. He said it’s a holiday there over the weekend but they’ll get back to me soon. >>If possible I'd like to do without PVGRUB altogether. That would mean booting >>unikernels directly on AWS, Colin Percival who did FreeBSD on EC2 replied to me 30 minutes after I got Antti’s fix working but he said this: Hi Andrew, Glad to hear you got it fixed, even if I couldn't help. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with -- NetBSD was very helpful to me when I was getting FreeBSD up and running on EC2, so I'd like to be able to contribute back, even beyond the usual inter-BSD cooperation. :-) Colin Percival I seem to recall reading that Colin started by hijacking EC2 Windows instances for some reason and loading FreeBSD over them. I’ll have to see if I can dig up the reasons why. Anyway Colin knows this stuff pretty well. Another thing worth noting is that it might be worth us having a chat to Jeff Barr and his folks about how EC2 might be adjusted to be better suited to booting small kernels. I believe that at the moment the minimum bootable EBS volume size is 1G. Whilst that’s no big deal in terms of testing and configuring, it would be a whole lot sweeter if we could boot the minimum size possible.
