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Could you explain in layman's terms, where did the difficulties lie in using FreeBSD on EC2? Since I think I heard an announcement that FreeBSD 8 supports Xen domU, though I can't find any information to this effect now and FreeBSD Handbook doesn't mention it either: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vi...

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FreeBSD's paravirtualized Xen support was a pile of crap. EC2 also had some minor quirks which I can't talk about (NDA).

Wait, you're under an NDA from Amazon? :s

Yes, unlike the OpenBSD guys, the FreeBSD guys don't mind being under NDA if it means they can release support for hardware sooner rather than later. Look at Sam Leffler and the ath driver (although he is no longer under NDA)

I don't mind NDAs as long as they're reasonable and I get something out of signing them. In general I'd rather know things and not be able to talk about them than not know in the first place.

As FreeBSD security officer I handle 'do not disclose until date X' information on a regular basis.

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