Thinking about this more, I think it makes sense to add virtio-blk support. Michael Keuter concurs as well.
I talked with the Vultr support, and they were crystal clear that they will only support virtio-blk and not virtio-scsi in the predictable future. There are pros/cons for either virtio-blk/virtio-scsi, it does not seem like either is going away any time soon. I think it is worth the trouble to add support for virtio-blk in genx86_64-vm (also handle /dev/vd[a-d] in runnix, runnix-iso, and initrd). Lonnie > On Aug 23, 2018, at 2:10 AM, David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> wrote: > > But Astlinux could be built with that. My own personal custom build I have > CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=m set. I don't know if having it as a module would be good > enough. I do not build the install ISO however... is that necessary for > Vultr or can you start from the raw image? > > David > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 6:23 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > wrote: > Sadly, https://www.vultr.com does not work with AstLinux since they require > virtio-blk disk driver support, while AstLinux uses virtio-scsi drivers. > > Lonnie > > > > > On Aug 22, 2018, at 2:16 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > > wrote: > > > > For fun, I am testing Vultr, the web interface is nice and adding our VM > > ISO is very simple. > > > > But, I can't get the base storage to mount, they say they use SCSI_VIRTIO, > > which we support. > > > > I'll report back when I learn more. > > > > Lonnie > > > > > > > > > >> On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:39 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> Christopher, good points ... thanks for sharing your experience. > >> > >> Michael, I ran across a Linode-like provider "Vultr", with a Sydney > >> location. Until today I have never heard of them (just my ignorance I > >> suspect). > >> > >> https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ > >> > >> Vultr looks like it should work with an AstLinux ISO, but don't know for > >> sure until someone tries. > >> https://www.vultr.com/features/uploadiso/ > >> > >> Lonnie > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Aug 22, 2018, at 7:33 AM, The Cadillac Kid via Astlinux-users > >>> <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> the big issue i have with AWS is no ability t ogain console access when > >>> needed to get things working right. I have quite a few servers running on > >>> AWS, however my Asterisk servers are not among them.. AWS doesnt do real > >>> well at limiting someones Rogue instance and i had issues with latencies > >>> and jitter when running a decent size system on AWS.. I havent attempted > >>> astlinux specifically but we ended up building out our own metal for our > >>> cloud solutions and havent had any issues since.. > >>> -Christopher > >>> On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 3:25:22 AM EDT, David Kerr > >>> <da...@kerr.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> I have tried and failed with AWS and Google. The issue appears to be a > >>> requirement for GRUB bootloader. > >>> > >>> David > >>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Michael Knill > >>> <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: > >>> Hi Lonnie > >>> > >>> Not too good Im afraid. AWS is certainly the go for me: > >>> > >>> PING speedtest.tokyo2.linode.com (139.162.65.37): 56 data bytes > >>> > >>> --- speedtest.tokyo2.linode.com ping statistics --- > >>> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss > >>> round-trip min/avg/max = 105.966/106.090/106.254 ms > >>> PING speedtest.singapore.linode.com (139.162.23.4): 56 data bytes > >>> > >>> --- speedtest.singapore.linode.com ping statistics --- > >>> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss > >>> round-trip min/avg/max = 97.833/97.970/98.255 ms > >>> > >>> PING dynamodb.ap-southeast-2. amazonaws.com (52.94.13.132): 56 data bytes > >>> > >>> --- dynamodb.ap-southeast-2. amazonaws.com ping statistics --- > >>> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss > >>> round-trip min/avg/max = 7.004/7.125/7.217 ms > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> Michael Knill > >>> > >>> On 22/8/18, 12:24 pm, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi Michael, > >>> > >>> No I haven't, but it does look like you can import VMware images. > >>> > >>> I really like Linode for AstLinux in the cloud, but sadly there is no > >>> Linode locations in Australia (yet). > >>> > >>> If you wouldn't mind, hows does the latency compare for you: > >>> > >>> Linode - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) > >>> ping -q -c10 speedtest.tokyo2.linode.com > >>> > >>> Linode - Asia Pacific (Singapore) > >>> ping -q -c10 speedtest.singapore.linode.com > >>> > >>> AWS - Asia Pacific (Sydney) > >>> ping -q -c10 dynamodb.ap-southeast-2. amazonaws.com > >>> > >>> > >>> Lonnie > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Aug 21, 2018, at 5:37 PM, Michael Knill <michael.knill@ipcsolutions. > >>>> com.au> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Wow it looks hard to install Astlinux in EC2. You have to build it > >>>> locally and import. > >>>> Has anyone done this? > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> Michael Knill > >>> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Astlinux-users mailing list > > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > > pay...@krisk.org. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! > http://sdm.link/slashdot_______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
