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- Add Q3 entry on the EC2 port

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<!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 11 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
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<task>Add more drivers.</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='arch'>
<title>&os;/EC2</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Colin</given>
<common>Percival</common>
</name>
<email>cperciva@freebsd.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/">&os;/EC2 Status Page</url>
<url href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AA25MLK/">AWS Marketplace Listing</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>&os; images are available for use in EC2 for 8.3-RELEASE,
8.4-RELEASE, 9.0-RELEASE, 9.1-RELEASE, and 9.2-RELEASE. In
9.2-RELEASE, &os; runs in EC2 using an unpatched source tree,
but it needs the <tt>XENHVM</tt> kernel configuration.</p>
<p>Starting from &os; 10.0-ALPHA3, the <tt>GENERIC</tt> kernel
configuration now contains all the <tt>XENHVM</tt> bits needed
to allow &os; to run in EC2 natively. Consequently,
&os;&nbsp;10.0 will be the first release for which &os;/EC2 is
purely "bits off the ISO". This also means that starting with
10.0 it will be possible to use <tt>freebsd-update(8)</tt> for
all base system updates &mdash; in earlier releases it was
necessary to recompile the <tt>XENHVM</tt> kernel manually.</p>
<p>Due to &os;'s use of HVM virtualization, running on "old" EC2
instance types (m1, m2, c1, t1) requires that &os; pretends to
be Windows, which unfortunately results in paying the higher
"windows" EC2 instance prices. On "new" EC2 instances (cc1,
cc2, cg1, cr1, hi1, hs1, and m3) &os; can run as a "unix" image
at the lower rate.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>Test &os; 10.0-ALPHAs/BETAs/RCs as they become available.
Plenty of new Xen code has been committed recently and there are
probably bugs to find before the release.</task>
<task>Keep nagging Amazon to provide more instance types which
&os; can run on without paying a "Windows tax".</task>
<task>Provide some mechanism for instance configuration via EC2
<tt>user-data</tt>. This might involve using
<tt>cloud-init</tt>, or it might be a new system.</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>