From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 13 19:08:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ABD96E for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:08:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f42.google.com (mail-oa0-f42.google.com [209.85.219.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1955296 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id i10so8074291oag.15 for ; Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=BkyAbS4BQuyEvoRuFbsSIq8yjtumsXXWqVAtFeWdSW8=; b=bylmqsECr3oyPJUwmorkdQ52V816Im9/XBTEfkxVwOexUq2SDIRI1gG7l3nuF3PifZ vGom/06Acku7qxX8wsfT+V3otkP7TqmnqYFxbx4xhpSTHz9LA0bs77djuaveU82RXcde QMJu6M0LBhggLJUQIrMSjyhqA36dfxAEOrT2sKW21a4BCE22/N9qnhUh1QVEr1qKngg+ VZeaQG7okmwRDkqXYBI9BRn+3sDAnoaoBgVEE4g3aW9dHFpvATAOfSHIq4ktnemmNY6a x+IztOGRoNJB6dN1nMiZ7+V6cDW4bbG5+VOOhkvyoxCpRQz4IW+9/7APirqxK/DMMaZN eI5w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.41.136 with SMTP id f8mr13723559oel.11.1368472116935; Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.60.46.167 with HTTP; Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51913821.4040104@freebsd.org> References: <519131D8.9010307@citrix.com> <51913821.4040104@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:08:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD PVHVM call for testing From: Michael Sierchio To: Colin Percival X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkBK+csSpa6IdjpKzN11R2KCpAJ0Y/uUqqmj10uG5j/ZnDg0a3kcyJ9ETWalfu04o6pnyfm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" , "xen-users@lists.xen.org" , xen-devel , "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:08:44 -0000 The Windoze tax is unacceptable for a number of reasons - the primary reason is that I'm not running Windows. I don't think the licensing scheme is unfair for those actually running Windows, mind you. At the AWS Summit, an assertion was made that HVM support might be coming soon for all instance types for *NIX OSes. I hope that's true. - M On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 05/13/13 11:52, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > I think should be encouraged. We're eagerly awaiting the ability to run > > FreeBSD in AWS in something other than t1.micro or cluster compute > > instances. Should we keep holding out hope, or will AWS make HVM > available > > for all instance types before this happens? > > Err... my AMIs run on all EC2 instance types. On some you have to pay the > Windows rate, that's all. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid >