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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:11:06 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        luke@hybrid-logic.co.uk
Cc:        "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>, Luke Marsden <luke-lists@hybrid-logic.co.uk>, UK FreeBSD Users <ukfreebsd@uk.freebsd.org>, team@hybrid-logic.co.uk
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!
Message-ID:  <4D07A52A.1080208@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1292328289.26377.48.camel@pow>
References:  <4D066D52.2080100@freebsd.org> <1292328289.26377.48.camel@pow>

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On 12/14/10 04:04, Luke Marsden wrote:
> This is clearly an enormous milestone on the road to a stable FreeBSD 8
> AMI which I hope will eventually work in amd64 mode on the large EC2
> instances :-)

I hope so too. :-)

> Is this working with PV net and disk drivers? Presumably to run on EC2
> at all (notwithstanding their expensive cluster compute nodes which are
> meant for HPC and which do run HVM) it must be in fully PV mode.

This is fully PV, yes.

> We at Hybrid Logic are very happy to provide testing, assistance and any
> resources we can muster to help you in this effort.

Probably the biggest thing you can do to help right now is to spin up a bunch
of instances, throw some load at them, and see if you can get them to panic. :-)

-- 
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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