<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Amazon announced their "reserved instances" for EC2 I noticed a mention of FreeBSD in their FAQ:<br><br><dl class="faq"><dt>Q: What operating system environments are supported?</dt><dd><p>Amazon <span class="caps">EC2</span> currently supports a variety of operating systems including: RedHat Linux, Windows Server, openSuSE Linux, Fedora, Debian, OpenSolaris, Cent OS, Gentoo Linux, Oracle Linux, and FreeBSD. We are looking for ways to expand it to other platforms in future releases.</p></dd></dl>My understanding was that this wasn't happening until 8.0 release at earliest, which may be some time from now. Just a typo?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Seems like it was a mistake because its not listed in the support operating systems table anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, FreeBSD 8 will not support Xen 3.0.3 or earlier. EC2 uses 3.0.3</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>--</div><div>Steven Kreuzer</div><div><a href="http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer">http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer</a></div></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>