On 10/28/2014 09:50 AM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > In the coming weeks I'd like to try GNU/kFreeBSD jessie on some public > clouds. (Pending release team's decision on the port's release status > for jessie). Hopefully, we can release with some pre-built cloud images > this time, as those would greatly help potential users or developers get > a hold of it. > > I did a test already on Bytemark's BigV (KVM-based public cloud): > https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/09/msg00183.html > > That worked very well, thanks to having proper virtio drivers in the > upstream FreeBSD kernel now; there were only a few debian-installer > issues to overcome, and then it was useful for actual development work: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/09/msg00125.html > I rented the VM at my own expense, however. > > Please let me know if it sounds viable/useful for me to try this, on > which other clouds next, and especially if you can help me get access to > instances or a trial account in order to work on this. (I'm not a DD/DM > but would agree to follow DMUP or similar rules). > > Debian GNU/kFreeBSD should be able to support KVM hosts, Xen HVM (having > PV device drivers too), and user reports suggest Hyper-V also works; > but its kernel cannot be booted directly by Qemu or with pygrub, so is > usually be booted by GRUB2 from the MBR or GPT BIOS boot partition. > > I would think it most interesting due to ZFS (compressed, snapshottable, > highly manageable, scalable storage pools); perhaps for the PF firewall > and/or CARP; BSD jails and the potential to run FreeBSD software in > chroots, or conversely, a Debian chroot on regular FreeBSD. > > Assuming it works, I can imagine cloud instances being useful to future > development work: for debian-installer testing, c-i testing, package > rebuilds etc. > > Thanks! > Regards,
Hi, If that's possible, then I wouldn't mind providing kFreeBSD in the HP cloud, together with the normal amd64 image. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5474809b.4080...@goirand.fr
