Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Sierchio 
The Windoze tax is unacceptable for a number of reasons - the primary
reason is that I'm not running Windows.  I don't think the licensing scheme
is unfair for those actually running Windows, mind you.

At the AWS Summit, an assertion was made that HVM support might be coming
soon for all instance types for *NIX OSes.  I hope that's true.

- M


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Colin Percival wrote:

> On 05/13/13 11:52, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> > I think should be encouraged.  We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run
> > FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute
> > instances.  Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM
> available
> > for all instance types before this happens?
>
> Err... my AMIs run on all EC2 instance types.  On some you have to pay the
> Windows rate, that's all.
>
> --
> Colin Percival
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>
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Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Sierchio 
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Roger Pau Monné 
 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Recently Justin T Gibbs, Will Andrews and myself have been working on
> improving the Xen support in FreeBSD. The main goal of this was to bring
> full PVHVM support to FreeBSD, right now FreeBSD is only using PV
> interfaces for disk and network interfaces when running as a HVM guest. ...


I think should be encouraged.  We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run
FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute
instances.  Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM available
for all instance types before this happens?

-  M
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