Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2011-06-22 Thread Colin Percival
On 06/21/11 22:34, Chris Fordham wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:12:55 +1000, Colin Percival wrote: The current status of FreeBSD/EC2 is at http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ I am an engineer at RightScale and a couple of us that are FreeBSD users are looking at creating RightImages

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2011-06-21 Thread Colin Percival
On 06/21/11 18:15, Chris Fordham wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:00:34 +1100, Colin Percival wrote: Thanks to a month of bug fixing and a lot of help from Amazon, FreeBSD is now available on EC2: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html Only for 9.0-CURRENT and only

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: Any plans of using ZFS there? I don't know about Amazon's live disk resizing policy, but at least in our local Xen deployment of FreeBSD at Cambridge, ZFS seems like the sensible thing so that we can do live disk resizing during provision of

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-17 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/17/10 01:29, Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Aleksey Ovcharenko wrote: Any plans of using ZFS there? I don't know about Amazon's live disk resizing policy, but at least in our local Xen deployment of FreeBSD at Cambridge, ZFS seems like the sensible thing so that we can do

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-14 Thread Luke Marsden
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

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-14 Thread Gót András
Hi, If it's full PV is it 32 bit only? Last time I've checked amd64 was only hvm with PV drivers. Are there any 32bit images (tar.gz) to start with? We run Xen 3.4.3 on our servers and I'd give it a try also. We have Opteron and Xeon processors as well on the hosts. Regards, Andras Colin

FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-13 Thread Colin Percival
Hi freebsd-xen people and wannabe FreeBSD/EC2 users, Thanks to a month of bug fixing and a lot of help from Amazon, FreeBSD is now available on EC2: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html Only for 9.0-CURRENT and only t1.micro instances so far, though -- but we're

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-13 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/13/10 11:58, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: Great! Can You say, does freebsd support live migration and memory hotplug? I don't think so. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly