On 04/11/13 15:43, Michael Sierchio wrote:
I have constructed several AMIs. If I get a sense for which flavor of
instance/OS combos are of interest, I can roll a few and make them
available.
I'd be more interested in a step by step How To so I could roll my own.
I need to use EU instances because of data protection laws, and the
Windows tax on micro instances in the EU is a huge 75%!
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Don O'Neil <li...@lizardhill.com> wrote:
Have you made any AMI's based on this method? I would love to deploy a
medium or large instance that isn't subject to the 'tax', but don't really
know where to start to build one like this.
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To: jflowers
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: EC2 Instances Future
I still follow Colin's original pattern of using a minimal "Linux"
grub boot EBS device (1GB), ext2fs, with the root partition being on another
(ufs2) EBS device. This works very well, with a couple of caveats -
- Install e2fsprogs (pkg or port) - you will need it, on occasion when
modifying the boot device (after mounting rw).
- Kernel upgrades are tricky, so be careful
- Edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf intelligently to prevent unintended
consequences
Apart from that, I have been running i386 and amd64 instances this way, both
8.3 and 9.1, without difficulty (apart from some Xen clock weirdness in
8.3).
No Windoze Tax. ;-)
- M
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:05 AM, jflowers <jflow...@ezo.net> wrote:
Is there anything likely to be available in the future (3 months to a
year) to avoid the Windows tax on FreeBSD instances for the smaller
(t1.micro, m1.small, m1.medium) types? I understand the problem but
don't find anything much online about a possible solution. Probably
because I don't understand as much as I think.
Thanks.
--
Jim Flowers <jflow...@ezo.net>
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