FreeBSD on Amazon EC2

Zladivliba Voskuy nospampam at hotmail.fr
Tue May 4 20:13:07 UTC 2010 

Well, so next question : would it be possible to borrow the opensolaris code (how about that !) ? 

My (really) 2 cents ;-)

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> Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2
> From: mister.olli at googlemail.com
> To: gs at omegacube.fr
> CC: nospampam at hotmail.fr; freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:37:51 +0200
> 
> Hi,
> 
> btw there is XEN dom0 support in OpenSolaris. They ported the same
> management tools (xm/ libvirt/ ...) and its working really stable for
> me.
> 
> Regards,
> Mr Olli
> 
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:16 +0200, Guillaume Seigneuret wrote:
> > I agree but I think the major problem is that all the Linux distributions
> > are abandoning Xen because of its difficulty to maintain. (I fear especially
> > for Debian which is the main interesting distrib for Xen dom0)
> > 
> > For now the only OS who is maintaining Xen as Dom0 is NetBSD and it’s not so
> > great by my humble opinion.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > So maybe it would be a good thing to look at alternatives to Xen or
> > patiently wait for Xen 4.0 :( 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Cordialement,
> > 
> > 
> > Guillaume Seigneuret
> > 
> >  
> > 
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> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Network and System Security Architect
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> > 
> >  
> > 
> > De : Zladivliba Voskuy [mailto:nospampam at hotmail.fr] 
> > Envoyé : lundi 3 mai 2010 19:54
> > À : gs at omegacube.fr
> > Cc : freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> > Objet : RE: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for your interesting view on the subject. Yes I guess I too, would
> > really love to hear from a FreeBSD developer on this matter. It would be
> > great to have at least a 386 version working so some of us could put it on
> > ec2 and start with some feedback.
> > 
> > FreeBSD should really be there in my opinion !
> > 
> > --
> > My dojo & zend framework experience, the good, the bad with code samples ;-)
> > http://practicalphpajax.wordpress.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > From: gs at omegacube.fr
> > > To: nospampam at hotmail.fr
> > > CC: freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2
> > > Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:12:55 +0200
> > > 
> > > Dear Zlabivliba,
> > > 
> > > I think it's going to take a while for FreeBSD to perfectly work as a
> > > paravirtualized DomU.
> > > SMP doesn't work, there is no AMD64 kernel available, and the stability
> > has
> > > to be improved under heavy load.
> > > I guess the first work will be done on the stability of the virtualized OS
> > > and then some new feature will appear.
> > > Maybe a FreeBSD developer could tell us about this but I also guess this
> > is
> > > not a priority since they added FreeBSD jails.
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > De : owner-freebsd-xen at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-xen at freebsd.org]
> > De
> > > la part de Zladivliba Voskuy
> > > Envoyé : jeudi 29 avril 2010 12:38
> > > À : freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> > > Objet : RE: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok, that's a good news. In your opinion what exactly is the work remaining
> > > to be done for a full implementation, and how long is this going to take ?
> > > 
> > > --
> > > My dojo & zend framework experience, the good, the bad with code samples
> > ;-)
> > > 
> > > http://practicalphpajax.wordpress.com/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > From: gs at omegacube.fr
> > > > To: freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> > > > Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:59:50 +0200
> > > > Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Amazon EC2
> > > > 
> > > > For the moment FreeBSD is not stable as a paravirtualized DomU. 
> > > > I test it for a while and it crashes under heavy load.
> > > > If you need to test it, I'm sure it'll work on Amazon EC2 patform but
> > > don't
> > > > expect have it as a stable production environment.
> > > > 
> > > > 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
> > > > 
> > > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > > De : owner-freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-xen at freebsd.org]
> > > De
> > > > la part de Zladivliba Voskuy
> > > > Envoyé : mercredi 28 avril 2010 17:41
> > > > À : freebsd-xen at freebsd.org
> > > > Objet : FreeBSD on Amazon EC2
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi everyone !
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to find a solution to run FreeBSD on the Amazon EC2 platform.
> > > > Anyone succeded at building an image that could actually run ?
> > > > 
> > > > There's a lot of interest out there about this subject and my guess is
> > > that
> > > > FreeBSD would make a great choice for cloud computing. I'd really like
> > to
> > > > see it working soon.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for any input !
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > My dojo & zend framework experience, the good, the bad with code samples
> > > ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > http://practicalphpajax.wordpress.com/
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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