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Use Your Own Kernel with Amazon EC2
- rbranson 16y agoIf you don't know why this is a big deal, here's one reason: DRBD + GFS/OCFS2. This will make sort of mid-tier scaling setups significantly easier in EC2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD
- amock 16y agoAnother big deal is mentioned at the end of the article; you should now be able to boot operating systems them don't support such as FreeBSD. I know that tarsnap was hosted on Ubuntu because FreeBSD wasn't supported on EC2 and now that OpenSolaris has an uncertain future I hoping that someone gets FreeBSD running on EC2.
- rbranson 16y agoFreeBSD's support for paravirtualization is a bit immature right now. I'd definitely wait a bit on that.
- cperciva 16y agoThe FreeBSD-EC2 issues have nothing to do with being able to load custom kernels -- if that's all it was, I would have been running FreeBSD on EC2 years ago. FreeBSD's paravirtualized Xen code doesn't work on the Xen EC2 is using.
- bhiggins 16y agoThis is really cool. I'm looking forward to people getting other OSes up and running, too.
- wookiehangover 16y agoI've suspected that they've been rolling their own kernels for quite some time, it's rad that they're making these publicly available!
- spudlyo 16y agoThis is good news. In my experiments with a bootable encrypted EBS volume I've wanted to use xts-aes on the volume, but none of the AKI kernels were new enough to support it. Now I can run a bleeding edge kernel, nice!
- lenni 16y agoIs this the official AWS blog? Nothing wrong with typepad but I would have expected them to have something like aws.amazon.com/blog.