FreeBSD/EC2 lives!

[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 for the 5 regions.
>>> We'd like to offer our help and support if needed.
>>
>> I've released 8.2-RELEASE AMIs for t1.micro instances for all 5 regions.
>> There's also an 8.2ish AMI for cc1.4xlarge in us-east-1.
> 
> Thank you kindly Colin. We are wondering about the limited instance
> types, the issues on why this is so and if there any plans to support more?

I"m doing my best. ;-)

> In addition, is it possible to get the build source or otherwise to
> build the AMIs from scratch?

The t1.micro instances were built from 8.2-RELEASE.  The source tree used for
cc1.4xlarge was slightly modified and is included in the AMI.

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Colin Percival
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