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>, <weh@microsoft.com>
Contact: Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com>
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
In this quarter, we have published the 13.5-RELEASE on Azure Marketplace.
Wei Hu continues bug fixing for FreeBSD MANA NIC device.
Work in progress tasks:
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Automating the image publishing process and merging to src/release/.
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Making the process of publishing to Azure Marketplace more smoothly.
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Support FreeBSD in Azure VM utilities.
Open tasks:
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Update FreeBSD-related doc at Microsoft Learn
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Update sysutils/azure-agent to the latest version
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Upstream local modifications of Azure agent
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Adding FreeBSD support in Azure Pipelines
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https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/3266
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Building and publishing snapshot builds to Azure community gallery.
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Sponsor: Microsoft for people in Microsoft, and for resources
for the rest
Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else
Last modified on: May 20, 2025 by Li-Wen Hsu