[Ukfreebsd] FreeBSD/EC2

[Sevan / Venture37]

On 05/04/2010 16:44, Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
>
> On 5 Apr 2010, at 11:42, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
>
>> Colin Percival has posted a blog post asking for feedback on
>> FreeBSD EC2 support
>> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-04-05-FreeBSD-EC2.html
>
> As I understand it, the primary known issue is that EC2 uses an older
> version of the Xen ABI between the hypervisor and the OS kernel, and
> FreeBSD's Xen guest support is for a newer version. I suspect this
> isn't all that hard to fix, but it's definitely real work of the sort
> that a few months of funding would fix pretty efficiently.

Right, Kip Macy commented on the issue briefly last year when he was 
asked about EC2 support:
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-xen@freebsd.org/msg00360.html


Sevan