Re: I have a problem with iSCSI on AMD64 Xen HVM
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:35 +, Janne Snabb wrote: > I would guestimate that either "max" should be higher than what it > currently is (5) or the check which produces the error might be > unneeded. In my tests commenting out that check entirely works fine. http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/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 Phone: +441172232002 / +16179496062 ___ 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/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 on EC2
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 11:19 +0100, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: > > I'm just replying the thread to indicate that I've created a blog to join > efforts building FreeBSD on EC2 ; if you have time and are interested about > making this happen, inform me of your efforts, I'm trying to follow > everything that's going on on the subject : http://freebsdec2.wordpress.com/ I know it's not quite EC2 (or Xen, so please excuse the posting to freebsd-xen) but until Kip Macy gets a chance to make it happen on EC2 we're using CloudSigma and ElasticHosts for FreeBSD in the cloud. They use KVM as a virtualisation platform and stock FreeBSD runs nicely on it, and their prices aren't too far off what EC2 provide. They've both got a very nice API too. The only tweak you need to make is to set hw.mca.enable="0" on the FreeBSD boot prompt. CloudSigma have a library image (like an AMI) which includes this tweak (disclosure: I published this disk image). See http://www.cloudsigma.com/about-us/press-releases/179 for CloudSigma's recent press release about FreeBSD support and see http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/39c2cdd1d09b8f5f for info on the MCA bug and the fix. ElasticHosts are worth a mention too: they use a very similar platform but have data centres is San Antonio, Texas and London, UK. CloudSigma are based in Zurich, Switzerland only. Hope this is of some assistance. -- 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 Kip, Thanks for your reply. I'll see what I can do about getting the precise version (which I believe is indeed 3.0.3) and patches for you. Amazon say on http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ that "we work with our partners and community to provide you with the most choice possible. You are also empowered to use our bundling tools to upload your own operating systems"... so I'll attempt to hold them to that :) I'm also happy to contribute a paid EC2 account for development (within reason) since if we can't precisely replicate locally the environment they run then I imagine the next-best thing would be for you to have access to one of their instances which you can upload OS images to and debug FreeBSD as an EC2 DomU that way. Would you be interested in that? Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help / facilitate. I'll post again when I've got in touch with Amazon. Cheers, Luke Marsden Hybrid Logic Ltd. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:40 AM, K. Macy wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > > > I second the notion - could someone please articulate what > > the problems are with running FreeBSD as a DomU? > > > > Being able to run a 8.x instance on EC2 would be very helpful. > > > > Amazon runs a very old Redhat version of Xen and they aren't forthcoming > about the specific version, presumably out of security concerns. > > 3.0.3 doesn't support linear page tables and thus requires some pmap > futzing. Apart from that I don't have enough specifics to go on. If someone > told me the precise version and gave me the corresponding RH patches I'd be > much more interested. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > > -Kip > > ___ > 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" > ___ 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"
