FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure
Links:
Microsoft Azure
article on FreeBSD wiki URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure
Microsoft HyperV article
on FreeBSD wiki URL: https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV
Contact: Microsoft FreeBSD Integration Services Team
<bsdic@microsoft.com>
Contact: freebsd-cloud
Mailing List
Contact: The FreeBSD Azure Release Engineering Team <releng-azure@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Wei Hu <whu@FreeBSD.org>
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
The 13.0-RELEASE image on Azure Marketplace has been published.
The changes for building official images on Azure Marketplace, which fulfill the requirements of Azure and FreeBSD cloud images like disk layout and UEFI for Gen2 VM, along with some minor improvements like configurations to speed up booting, have been imported.
Above tasks are sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, with resources provided by Microsoft.
Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) is the new network adapter from Microsoft which will be available in the Azure public cloud. It provides SR-IOV NIC as a Virtual Function (VF) to guest OS running on Hyper-V. Wei has been working on its driver for a while and committed in this quarter.
This task is sponsored by Microsoft.
Work in progress tasks:
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Build and publish gen2 vm image to Azure Marketplace
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Build and publish ZFS-based image to Azure Marketplace
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Upstream local modifications of Azure agent
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Update Azure agent port to the latest version
Open tasks:
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Update FreeBSD related doc at https://docs.microsoft.com
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Support FreeBSD in Azure Pipelines
Last modified on: November 15, 2021 by Daniel Ebdrup Jensen