Use Your Own Kernel with Amazon EC2

Re:Use Your Own Kernel with Amazon EC2 by rbranson on Thursday July 15, 2010 @12:10PM (#1518217)

If you don't know why this is a big deal, here's one reason: DRBD + GFS/OCFS2. This will make sort of mid-tier scaling setups significantly easier in EC2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRBD

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Re:Use Your Own Kernel with Amazon EC2 by amock on Thursday July 15, 2010 @01:33PM (#1518464)

Another big deal is mentioned at the end of the article; you should now be able to boot operating systems them don't support such as FreeBSD. I know that tarsnap was hosted on Ubuntu because FreeBSD wasn't supported on EC2 and now that OpenSolaris has an uncertain future I hoping that someone gets FreeBSD running on EC2.

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Re:Use Your Own Kernel with Amazon EC2 by cperciva on Thursday July 15, 2010 @02:48PM (#1518723)

The FreeBSD-EC2 issues have nothing to do with being able to load custom kernels -- if that's all it was, I would have been running FreeBSD on EC2 years ago.

FreeBSD's paravirtualized Xen code doesn't work on the Xen EC2 is using.

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Re:Use Your Own Kernel with Amazon EC2 by rbranson on Thursday July 15, 2010 @02:37PM (#1518675)

FreeBSD's support for paravirtualization is a bit immature right now. I'd definitely wait a bit on that.

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