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NetBSD on IBM's SoftLayer and Microsoft's Azure and more
Xen is a common and popular virtualization platform today.
NetBSD was ported to it prety early.
Due to that, NetBSD cam be ran on any "cloud"
infrastructure that uses Xen, with
Amazon's EC2 cloud
probably the most prominent and largest one.
As the whole "cloud" and "platform as a service" (PaaS)
is lifting off, other virtualization platforms get popular,
which need attention from NetBSD.
The first one to note is
IBM's SoftLayer,
which uses its own virtualization technique that
supports many operating systems but strange enough not NetBSD.
To still get things going,
Emile "iMil" Heitor
has investigated the situation, and wrote
how to
install NetBSD (or any PV-capable system) on IBM's SoftLayer.
Another major platform to look for is Microsoft's Azure.
It uses Microsoft's ohn Hyper-V technique,
which there is no NetBSD support yet!
There is
a project description
"NetBSD/azure -- Bringing NetBSD to Microsoft Azure"
available that
got some pretty useful links
this week - any takers?
As starting point, there's code for
Running FreeBSD in Azure.
Last but not least, the last big
virtualization platfor amiss is KVM, which is used
e.g. in Google's cloud platform.
While there are some mentions that
NetBSD runs as guest operating system,
I am not sure what the latest state is.
Anyone in for a comparison? :)
[Tags: amazon, azure, ec2, google, ibm, microsoft, paas, softlayer, xen]
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