<div class="gmail_quote">Kör NetBSD i molnet</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jean-Yves Migeon</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jym@netbsd.org">jym@netbsd.org</a>></span><br>
Date: 2011/3/13<br>Subject: NetBSD now runs under Amazon EC2<br>To: <a href="mailto:netbsd-announce@netbsd.org">netbsd-announce@netbsd.org</a><br><br><br>It is with great pleasure that we officially announce the release<br>
of the first NetBSD Amazon Images for the Amazon Elastic Compute<br>
Cloud (better known as Amazon EC2) for all currently available<br>
regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California),<br>
EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).<br>
<br>
For those not familiar with the cloud world, Amazon EC2 is an<br>
infrastructure provider. It allows you to rent virtual machines<br>
for your own use utilizing the Amazon Web Services.<br>
<br>
Lately, Amazon has opened up its architecture to permit running<br>
third party operating systems within the Amazon cloud. Given that<br>
Amazon uses Xen as the virtualization technology of the cloud,<br>
and that NetBSD has had strong Xen support since the early days,<br>
it was a natural step to make NetBSD run under EC2.<br>
<br>
For more information please see the NetBSD EC2 wiki page:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/" target="_blank">http://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/</a><br>
<br>
For running NetBSD AMIs, all you need is an AWS account, a browser and<br>
an ssh client.<br>
<br>
To create and manipulate your own AMIs, or to manipulate storage, the<br>
following packages are available in pkgsrc (<a href="http://www.pkgsrc.org" target="_blank">http://www.pkgsrc.org</a>):<br>
<br>
- EC2 AMI tools (misc/ec2-ami-tools)<br>
- EC2 API tools (misc/ec2-api-tools)<br>
<br>
I would like to thank:<br>
<br>
- Manuel Bouyer and Christoph Egger from NetBSD for their work<br>
on Xen support for NetBSD.<br>
- Colin Percival from FreeBSD for providing guidance and help<br>
running NetBSD inside EC2.<br>
- the entire NetBSD community for their support.<br>
<br>
Without them this project would not have been possible.<br>
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