Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:17:02 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Zladivliba Voskuy <nospampam@hotmail.fr> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on EC2 Message-ID: <4CCDA48E.3050200@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <SNT121-W641ED2B77090F41CC68C93C8470@phx.gbl> References: <88955623-5D2F-453A-B7EF-9E1058370B14@onapp.com> <SNT121-W35EB030141B27E463F7456C8470@phx.gbl>, <4CCD8DF6.8050804@freebsd.org> <SNT121-W641ED2B77090F41CC68C93C8470@phx.gbl>
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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. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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