FreeBSD on EC2

[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 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 more.

> 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 there as much a good
> thing for Amazon to open up to other OSes than Linux/Windows. How much
> work is needed to make this happen ?

Amazon is completely open to having other operating systems available on EC2
(at least, as far as I can tell -- I don't work for Amazon and this is just
my opinion from talking to them).  The problems have been technical, mostly
due to FreeBSD's Xen code being in generally poor condition.

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Colin Percival
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