From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 20:22:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588CD106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:22:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from biancalana@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C758FC15 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghrr16 with SMTP id r16so7467949ghr.13 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:22:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wzjujrnTINv4m1/Cs9mwudGkoFZLbAcmhDWQ2Wt3ifQ=; b=XObLK/YgrTM++rlCmQ/nSjDPGikRvP93nWkubIN+adqosCTgABqxDdYDwTWGn8AUkd t2JUv/0q+4oXoMhTsQUpEmck2rM3YSY7ncSYVwp9g5MYz4O3Za99F0Bm3vXyPUldEC6V I3oUgBYuryHuL/Y219V72q4bMTGZ2K53TBnr8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.117.20 with SMTP id u20mr8604491anm.71.1325706929940; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:55:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.147.76.13 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:55:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> References: <1325612405.6073.2704.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4F035333.6080601@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:55:29 -0200 Message-ID: From: Alexandre Biancalana To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:22:07 -0000 On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Colin Percival wrote= : > On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: >>> =A0What=B4s is the current state of FreeBSD running on Amazon EC2 ? Is >>> this stable ? Looking at Colin's status page >>> (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/) looks like there=B4s no >>> active development on that. > > I'll be publishing AMIs for 9.0-RELEASE for the 64-bit "defenestrated" > instances and cluster compute instances. Thank you for the responses guys. > > Beyond that, I'm mostly waiting for improvements from Amazon. > >>> =A0Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ? > > Yes. I=B4d asked the wrong question... are the FreeBSD instances stable enough to run Network/FileSystem very intensive workload ? > >>> =A0I'm interested in running network (dns and http with accept filter) >>> and memory/buffer cache intensive applications on m1.small, m1.large >>> and m2.xlarge instances. >>> >>> =A0Any thoughts ? > > You can't run FreeBSD on m1.small, but it works just fine on m1.large and > m2.xlarge as long as you don't mind paying the "Windows tax". By "paying the Windows tax" you mean that it run in HVM instead of PV Xen m= ode ?