Re: NetBSD on Amazon EC2

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 8, 10:15pm, kalin%el.net@localhost (el kalin) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: NetBSD on Amazon EC2

| well. ok. specifics...  i have 3 netbsd instances on aws. one is mostly
| testing and fortunately that was the one targeted first for reboot "because
| of scheduled maintenance". after the reboot this happens:

Thanks.

| this also happens if i try starting a new instance with any of the official
| netbsd 6 and 7 images.
| 
| if the assumption that the rebooted instance is moved to a kvm host is
| correct, then, yes the current official images are not working. or any of
| the "community" ones for that matter. it's also worth noting that it seems
| that the official netbsd aws builds page has not been updated for about 2
| years.

So some things are in flux:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/aws_deletes_new_hypervisor_kvm/

It seems that NetBSD does not boot anymore because the XEN configuration
at AWS to not accept linear mappings that the NetBSD kernel pmap requires
and it would be a lot of work to fix it. Hopefully using the new hypervisor
might be the easier path to success.

christos