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

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

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-20 Thread Collin Forbes
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:11:06AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: > > Probably the biggest thing you can do to help right now is to spin up a bunch > of instances, throw some load at them, and see if you can get them to panic. > :-) I signed up for Amazon EC2 last night and managed to panic my Fre

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-20 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/20/10 13:21, Collin Forbes wrote: > the last line I see before the panic is: > > checking whether mlock is broken... Yep, known issue -- this is PR kern/140313. > I'm a debugging n00b however. What do you need in terms of a debugging > report? I have files in /var/crash as a result

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 ca

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 VM

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

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-14 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/14/10 04:04, Luke Marsden wrote: > 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 :-) I hope so too. :-) > Is this working with PV net and disk drivers? Presumably to run on EC2 > at

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!

2010-12-13 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 para

Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

2010-12-13 Thread Aleksey Ovcharenko
Any plans of using ZFS there? On 13.12.2010, at 21:00, Colin Percival wrote: > 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.h