Re: EC2 Instances Future
On 04/11/13 15:43, Michael Sierchio wrote: I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them available. I'd be more interested in a step by step How To so I could roll my own. I need to use EU instances because of data protection laws, and the Windows tax on micro instances in the EU is a huge 75%! On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really know where to start to build one like this. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM To: jflowers Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in 8.3). No Windoze Tax. ;-) - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably because I don't understand as much as I think. Thanks. -- Jim Flowers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: EC2 Instances Future
I personally need medium and large instances, but I would think others might need the tiny and small as well. Colin has published his for the cluster compute models, so I don't think there is need for that. Thanks! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:44 AM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them available. - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: > Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a > medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't > really know where to start to build one like this. > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael > Sierchio > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM > To: jflowers > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future > > I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" > grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on > another > (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - > > - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when > modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). > > - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful > > - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended > consequences > > Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this > way, both > 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness > in 8.3). > > No Windoze Tax. ;-) > > - M > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: >> Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a >> year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller >> (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but >> don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably >> because I don't understand as much as I think. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Jim Flowers >> >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: EC2 Instances Future
I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them available. - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: > Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a > medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really > know where to start to build one like this. > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM > To: jflowers > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future > > I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" > grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another > (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - > > - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when > modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). > > - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful > > - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended > consequences > > Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both > 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in > 8.3). > > No Windoze Tax. ;-) > > - M > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: >> Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a >> year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller >> (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but >> don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably >> because I don't understand as much as I think. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Jim Flowers >> >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: EC2 Instances Future
Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really know where to start to build one like this. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:05 PM To: jflowers Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in 8.3). No Windoze Tax. ;-) - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: > Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a > year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller > (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but > don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably > because I don't understand as much as I think. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jim Flowers > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: EC2 Instances Future
I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux" grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another (ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats - - Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when modifying the boot device (after mounting rw). - Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful - Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended consequences Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both 8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in 8.3). No Windoze Tax. ;-) - M On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers wrote: > Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a year) to > avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller (t1.micro, > m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but don't find anything > much online about a possible solution. Probably because I don't understand as > much as I think. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jim Flowers > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
EC2 Instances Future
Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller (t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably because I don't understand as much as I think. Thanks. -- Jim Flowers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
