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>
In this quarter, the 12.4-RELEASE image has been published to Azure Marketplace.
Work in progress tasks:
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Automating the image building and publishing process and merge to src/release/.
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Building and publishing ZFS-based images to Azure Marketplace
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All the required codes are merged to main branch, and can create ZFS-based images by specifying
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Need to make the build process more automatic and collaborating with release engineering to start generating snapshots.
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Building and publishing Hyper-V gen2 VM images to Azure Marketplace
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Blocked by https://bugs.freebsd.org/264267
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The above tasks are sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, with resources provided by Microsoft.
Wei Hu and his colleagues in Microsoft are working on several tasks sponsored by Microsoft:
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Fixing booting issue on Hyper-V gen2 VM in Azure
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Porting Hyper-V guest support to aarch64
Open tasks:
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Update FreeBSD related doc at https://docs.microsoft.com
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Support FreeBSD in Azure Pipelines
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Update Azure agent port to the latest version
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Upstream local modifications of Azure agent
Sponsor: Microsoft for work by Wei Hu and others in Microsoft,
and for resources for the rest
Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else
Last modified on: January 23, 2023 by Lorenzo Salvadore