>>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.






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