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: Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com>
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
In this quarter, we have solved all the blocking issues and published the 14.0-RELEASE on Azure Marketplace, with complete architecture (amd64, arm64) and VM generation (gen1, gen2) support, available in both UFS and ZFS as the root file system.
Work in progress tasks:
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Automating the image building and publishing process and merging to src/release/.
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Building and publishing snapshot builds to Azure community gallery.
The above tasks are sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, with resources provided by Microsoft.
Open tasks:
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Update FreeBSD related doc at Microsoft Learn
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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 people in Microsoft, and for resources
for the rest
Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else
Last modified on: February 13, 2024 by Li-Wen Hsu