=== 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/subscription/freebsd-cloud[freebsd-cloud Mailing List] + Contact: The FreeBSD Azure Release Engineering Team + Contact: Wei Hu , + Contact: Li-Wen Hsu Publishing the 15.1-RELEASE image to Azure Marketplace is in progress. It is expected to become publicly available early in the third quarter. Li-Wen is investigating the technical details needed to support Azure Trusted Launch. Wei and Li-Wen, together with other Microsoft engineers, are investigating an issue preventing mana(4) from working correctly on AMD-based Azure VMs. The mana(4) device is present on the latest v7-generation Azure VMs. Work in progress tasks: * Automating the image publishing process and merging it into [.filename]#src/release/#. * Making the process of publishing to Azure Marketplace smoother. * Supporting FreeBSD in link:https://github.com/Azure/azure-vm-utils/[Azure VM utilities]. Open tasks: * Update FreeBSD-related documentation at link:https://learn.microsoft.com[Microsoft Learn]. * Update package:sysutils/azure-agent[] to the latest version. * Upstream link:https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent/pull/1892[local modifications of Azure agent]. * Port link:https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions[Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure]. * Add FreeBSD support in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/products/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines]. ** link:https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/3266[] ** Build and publish snapshot builds to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery]. Sponsor: Microsoft for people in Microsoft, and for resources for the rest + Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else