Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:00 -0800, Colin Percival wrote: Thanks to a month of bug fixing and a lot of help from Amazon, FreeBSD is now available on EC2 Congratulations Colin, this is absolutely fantastic news! Thank you!! This is clearly an enormous milestone on the road to a stable FreeBSD 8 AMI which I hope will eventually work in amd64 mode on the large EC2 instances :-) Is this working with PV net and disk drivers? Presumably to run on EC2 at all (notwithstanding their expensive cluster compute nodes which are meant for HPC and which do run HVM) it must be in fully PV mode. We at Hybrid Logic are very happy to provide testing, assistance and any resources we can muster to help you in this effort. We are building a cross-cloud PaaS web cluster on top of FreeBSD/ZFS. Having EC2 support is a big win for us and our clients, so this is really excellent news. Thank you again. With stable KVM, Xen HVM and soon Xen PV support, it looks like FreeBSD in the cloud is truly coming to fruition in 2011. Awesome! -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Mobile: +447791750420 ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xen PV drivers for FreeBSD
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 09:24 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: The version in -CURRENT and FreeBSD 8 that Justin is talking about is very stable. I will be updating FreeBSD 7 and 6 today. You will need to update from source to get this version as it is not on the release ISOs We are using it a lot at Yahoo. It is very stable. Just to add another positive data-point, inspired by this post (thanks Sean!) I've just got 8.1-RELEASE working well on Flexiant, a UK-based Xen HVM cloud infrastructure provider. Here are the incantations I used to get it running stably: http://lukemarsden.net/blog/2010/11/running-freebsd-8-1-as-a-xen-hvm-domu-on-flexiant/ -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Mobile: +447791750420 ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD Xen domU ?
Hi FreeBSD-Xen, I'm very interested in getting FreeBSD 8 running on either EC2 or GoGrid (or another large Xen-powered cloud), and I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I'm an experienced programmer but not a kernel programmer, but am very willing to learn. Could someone please summarise the problem(s) standing in the way of getting FreeBSD running and production-ready on these environments and give me some pointers on how I could start hacking at the code? Thanks, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 13:07 +, Brett Sheffield wrote: Adrian Chadd wrote: Take a look at my page in the wiki. wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd I haven't built any Xen images lately. I may try and build an 8.0-RC1 or 8.0-RC2 kernel image. I think things are still a bit unstable though and I personally don't have the time to try and fix them at the present.. Thanks Adrian. I'll use that as a starting point and see how I get on. ___ freebsd-xen@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-xen-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
