RE: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-11-01 Thread Zladivliba Voskuy
Ok, this is great ! Thanks to Vince for pointing the ml post ; Amazon showing concern about putting FreeBSD on EC2 is great stuff. Keep us posted if there's anything we can do (test servers, put small production servers on ec2, I'll beta test whaterver can be tested if you guys need to).

Re: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-11-01 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 31/10/2010 21:45, Colin Percival wrote: > On 10/31/10 13:06, Vince Hoffman wrote: >> On 31 Oct 2010, at 17:17, Colin Percival wrote: >>> I've been working on this from time to time over the past couple of years. >>> I have some other work I need to do in the short term but some time in the >>>

Re: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Colin Percival
On 10/31/10 13:06, Vince Hoffman wrote: > On 31 Oct 2010, at 17:17, Colin Percival wrote: >> I've been working on this from time to time over the past couple of years. >> I have some other work I need to do in the short term but some time in the >> next couple of weeks I hope to work on this some

Re: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
On 31 Oct 2010, at 17:17, Colin Percival wrote: > On 10/31/10 10:03, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: >> I'm trying to shake whatever I can to make whatever possible happen. >> Good thing you replied. Do you have any idea of a schedule when we could >> be seeing FreeBSD on EC2 ? > > I've been working

Re: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Colin Percival
On 10/31/10 10:03, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: > I'm trying to shake whatever I can to make whatever possible happen. > Good thing you replied. Do you have any idea of a schedule when we could > be seeing FreeBSD on EC2 ? I've been working on this from time to time over the past couple of years. I ha

RE: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Zladivliba Voskuy
I'm trying to shake whatever I can to make whatever possible happen. Good thing you replied. Do you have any idea of a schedule when we could be seeing FreeBSD on EC2 ? Opensolaris is dead, so apart from Linux no other Unix run in EC2 ; so I think this would be a good thing for FreeBSD to be t

Re: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Colin Percival
On 10/31/10 02:52, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: > - I just saw 2 netbst images on EC2 named > fbsdtest/netbsd-image-5.0.2-i386.manifest.xml and > fbsdtest/netbsd-image-5.0.2-amd64.manifest.xml *cough* Please ignore those. They were an experiment which doesn't currently work. > Those are both publ

RE: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Luke Marsden
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 > everyth

RE: FreeBSD on EC2

2010-10-31 Thread Zladivliba Voskuy
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

RE: FreeBSD on EC2 maybe real now ?

2010-09-16 Thread Zladivliba Voskuy
Thanks a lot for your post. This is really usefull for all of us how are dreaming to put FreeBSD on EC2. I'll get it a try this weekend to see if I can do something. Ok, let's keep us posted through this list ! Great ! Z. > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:00:02 -0700 > Subject: Re

Re: FreeBSD on EC2 maybe real now ?

2010-09-16 Thread John Prather
I'm not familiar with EC2 myself yet, but I did play with FreeBSD booted out of pvgrub on linode's xen system. It was something of a pain, and required their finnix linux setup (some rescue linux system that they offer which did not consume my own paid-for disk volumes) to write the OS disk image

Re: FreeBSD on EC2 maybe real now ?

2010-09-16 Thread Guillaume Seigneuret
something :p Cordialement, *Guillaume Seigneuret* *Network and System Security Architect Web : http://www.omegacube.fr Address :* Hôtel Technologique - BP 100 Technopôle de Château Gombert 13382 Marseille Cedex 13 2010/9/16 Zladivliba Voskuy > > Hey guys ! > > It seems there's a l