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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:29:46 -0500
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] "cloud" computing
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Zak B. Elep <zakame@zakame.net> wrote:
> rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) writes:
>
>> One thought was to just rent them at amazon ecc:
>> http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=84
>>
>> Anybody worked with these guys? I need to run the 10k machines with
>> lguest. Any other possible providers anyone out there knows of?
>
> These are basically all Xen machines.  I don't know if you can run
> lguest within them, or if Amazon provides lguest-based instances.
>

lguest can be installed as a module, so I don't think this would be a
big problem -- of course, no vx32 is an option and its even less of a
problem....

       -eric