there's been an increase in openbsd orders lately, i wonder why...
two have personally thanked me for offering openbsd
there aren't as many openbsd VPS
since openbsd refuses to cooperate with LVM
or whatever that other virt system is
Xen
VMware
some others
yeah
it's odd that EC2 supports OpenSolaris before FreeBSD
but that's just enterprise for ya
sun insisted on that
sun did the work
ah
and oracle just killed opensolaris
or is about to
the irony :)
i wonder what kind of work is needed on the part of the OS to work in that type of environment.  i wonder if freebsd will ever get it
the tricky part is ensuring that you include their monitoring kernel
yeah, too bad about opensolaris death
I don't know exactly the details, but there's a bit of ensuring that your kernel responds to some "events" to allow EC2 to monitor your health
so a stock Xen image won't do, even mechanically converted
now, oddly enough, there are open-source "host an EC2 AMI" solutions already
so you can run your own version of EC2 at home
brb
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(computing)
up_the_irons: Have you been following the threads re: FreeBSD on EC2?
I got myself on some mailing list a year or so ago and now they're looking for funding.
But apparently they're having some difficulty getting it to work.