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FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances

Ever since the first EC2 instances launched — the ones which were retrospectively named "m1.small" — Amazon has relied on the Xen hypervisor. No longer: C5 instances use KVM. This sounds like it would be a problem, but in fact that change didn't bother FreeBSD at all: Now that everything uses hardware-based paging…
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Nov 17, 2017FreeBSD/EC2 on C5 instances by dantiberian16244

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