Hi, In the coming weeks I'd like to try GNU/kFreeBSD jessie on some public clouds. (Pending release team's decision on the port's release status for jessie). Hopefully, we can release with some pre-built cloud images this time, as those would greatly help potential users or developers get a hold of it. I did a test already on Bytemark's BigV (KVM-based public cloud): https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/09/msg00183.html That worked very well, thanks to having proper virtio drivers in the upstream FreeBSD kernel now; there were only a few debian-installer issues to overcome, and then it was useful for actual development work: https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2014/09/msg00125.html I rented the VM at my own expense, however. Please let me know if it sounds viable/useful for me to try this, on which other clouds next, and especially if you can help me get access to instances or a trial account in order to work on this. (I'm not a DD/DM but would agree to follow DMUP or similar rules). Debian GNU/kFreeBSD should be able to support KVM hosts, Xen HVM (having PV device drivers too), and user reports suggest Hyper-V also works; but its kernel cannot be booted directly by Qemu or with pygrub, so is usually be booted by GRUB2 from the MBR or GPT BIOS boot partition. I would think it most interesting due to ZFS (compressed, snapshottable, highly manageable, scalable storage pools); perhaps for the PF firewall and/or CARP; BSD jails and the potential to run FreeBSD software in chroots, or conversely, a Debian chroot on regular FreeBSD. Assuming it works, I can imagine cloud instances being useful to future development work: for debian-installer testing, c-i testing, package rebuilds etc. Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
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