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

In this quarter, the link:https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-12_4[12.4-RELEASE image] has been published to Azure Marketplace.

Work in progress tasks:

* Automating the image building and publishing process and merge to src/release/.
* Building and publishing ZFS-based images to Azure Marketplace
** All the required codes are merged to main branch, and can create ZFS-based images by specifying `VMFS=zfs`.
** Need to make the build process more automatic and collaborating with release engineering to start generating snapshots.
* Building and publishing Hyper-V gen2 VM images to Azure Marketplace
** Blocked by https://bugs.freebsd.org/264267

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:

* Fixing booting issue on Hyper-V gen2 VM in Azure
** https://bugs.freebsd.org/264267
* Porting Hyper-V guest support to aarch64
** https://bugs.freebsd.org/266248
** https://bugs.freebsd.org/267654

Open tasks:

* Update FreeBSD related doc at link:https://docs.microsoft.com[https://docs.microsoft.com]
* Support FreeBSD in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines]
* Update link:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/azure-agent[Azure agent port] to the latest version
* Upstream link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/pull/1892[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