Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:13:05 +0000 From: Luke Marsden <luke-lists@hybrid-logic.co.uk> To: Zladivliba Voskuy <nospampam@hotmail.fr>, freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD on EC2 Message-ID: <1288523585.8941.336.camel@pow> In-Reply-To: <SNT121-W55C50CA9953505F064FE51C8470@phx.gbl> References: <88955623-5D2F-453A-B7EF-9E1058370B14@onapp.com> , <SNT121-W35EB030141B27E463F7456C8470@phx.gbl> <SNT121-W55C50CA9953505F064FE51C8470@phx.gbl>
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On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 11:19 +0100, Zladivliba Voskuy wrote: > > I'm just replying the thread to indicate that I've created a blog to join efforts building FreeBSD on EC2 ; if you have time and are interested about making this happen, inform me of your efforts, I'm trying to follow everything that's going on on the subject : http://freebsdec2.wordpress.com/ I know it's not quite EC2 (or Xen, so please excuse the posting to freebsd-xen) but until Kip Macy gets a chance to make it happen on EC2 we're using CloudSigma and ElasticHosts for FreeBSD in the cloud. They use KVM as a virtualisation platform and stock FreeBSD runs nicely on it, and their prices aren't too far off what EC2 provide. They've both got a very nice API too. The only tweak you need to make is to set hw.mca.enable="0" on the FreeBSD boot prompt. CloudSigma have a library image (like an AMI) which includes this tweak (disclosure: I published this disk image). See http://www.cloudsigma.com/about-us/press-releases/179 for CloudSigma's recent press release about FreeBSD support and see http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/39c2cdd1d09b8f5f for info on the MCA bug and the fix. ElasticHosts are worth a mention too: they use a very similar platform but have data centres is San Antonio, Texas and London, UK. CloudSigma are based in Zurich, Switzerland only. Hope this is of some assistance. -- Best Regards, Luke Marsden CTO, Hybrid Logic Ltd. Web: http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/ Hybrid Web Cluster - cloud web hosting Mobile: +447791750420
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