FreeBSD on EC2 FAQ

I've been a FreeBSD fan since 1997. It is nice to see FreeBSD running on EC2. However, for die hard performance junkies, I have built something faster and more efficient. For people that love all the BSD variants out there, my startup - tegataiphoenix.com - offers FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD virtual machines (in addition to all the other usual suspects). The performance we are getting is around 500%-600% faster than Xen based BSD virtual machines. Mention HN, and get a discount. :)

I don't know much about virtualization, but could anyone explain how sites such as [1] and [2] are able to virtualize OpenBSD? Do you think they develop the Xen support internally?<p>[1] <a href="http://bsdvm.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bsdvm.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/2010/openbsd-4-8/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rootbsd.net/blog/2010/openbsd-4-8/</a>

I see virtualisation as a promising way forward for FreeBSD. Hardware support has always lagged Linux (and still does). The limited resources of BSD hackers could be more appropriately concentrated on needed areas instead of constantly playing hardware catch-up.