=== 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 + Contact: link:https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud[freebsd-cloud Mailing List] + Contact: The FreeBSD Azure Release Engineering Team + Contact: Wei Hu + Contact: Souradeep Chakrabarti + Contact: Li-Wen Hsu + In this quarter, we have worked mainly on ARM64 architecture support and building and publishing images to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery]. There are some testing images available in the project's testing public gallery, named `FreeBSDCGTest-d8a43fa5-745a-4910-9f71-0c9da2ac22bf`: * FreeBSD-CURRENT-testing * FreeBSD-CURRENT-gen2-testing * FreeBSD-CURRENT-arm64-testing To use them, when creating a virtual machine: . In `Select an Image` step, choose `Community Images (PREVIEW)` in `Other items` . Search `FreeBSD` 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 * Building and publishing snapshot builds to Azure community gallery The above tasks are sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, with resources provided by Microsoft. Wei Hu and Souradeep Chakrabarti in Microsoft are working on several tasks sponsored by Microsoft: * Porting Hyper-V guest support to aarch64 ** https://bugs.freebsd.org/267654 ** https://bugs.freebsd.org/272461 Open tasks: * Update FreeBSD related doc at link:https://learn.microsoft.com[Microsoft Learn] * Support FreeBSD in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/products/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 people in Microsoft, and for resources for the rest + Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else