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I am a BSD fan - a big one in fact as I have been using BSD since the late 80's. I use AWS for some things where the pricing/instance sizes are a good match for

by rwboyer 15y ago

I am a BSD fan - a big one in fact as I have been using BSD since the late 80's. I use AWS for some things where the pricing/instance sizes are a good match for the app needs. I don't keep up with the latest greatest Xen infrastructure in use by Amazon but... Wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to get NetBSD running as it has PV support for Xen3? vs using a windows HVM? RB

cperciva 15y ago
I've talked to NetBSD people about EC2 a bit, but I don't know their current status. IIRC at one point they were limited by a lack of SMP support in their Xen-PV code, but I don't know if that's still the case.
- rwboyer 15y ago
  I have a couple of boxes at home right now running NetBSD as dom0 w/xen3 and linux/freebsd/netbsd running as PV guests if I get a chance I will move them to some more modern HW and see what happens with NetBSD and multiple cores... Think one of them is a dual core right now but gotta check... In any case NetBSD PV Kern on a small AWS might be a great combo for cheap BSD thrills.... RB