=== FreeBSD on Microsoft HyperV and Azure

Links: +
link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure[Microsoft Azure article on FreeBSD wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/MicrosoftAzure[] +
link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV[Microsoft HyperV article on FreeBSD wiki] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/HyperV[]

Contact: Microsoft FreeBSD Integration Services Team <bsdic@microsoft.com> +
Contact: link:https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud[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 link:https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-13_0[13.0-RELEASE image on Azure Marketplace] has been link:https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-September/002059.html[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 link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=fbece7609573bd51080e949df03fa3d803a637ae[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 link:https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31150[has been working] on its driver for a while and link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=ce110ea12fcea71ae437d0a1d0549d3d32055b0e[committed] in this quarter.

This task is sponsored by Microsoft.

Work in progress tasks:

* Build and publish gen2 vm image to Azure Marketplace
* Build and publish ZFS-based image to Azure Marketplace
* Upstream link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/pull/1892[local modifications of Azure agent]
* Update link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/azure-agent[Azure agent port] to the latest version

Open tasks:

* Update FreeBSD related doc at link:https://docs.microsoft.com[]
* Support FreeBSD in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines]
