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=== 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 <[email protected]> +
Contact: link:https://lists.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud[freebsd-cloud Mailing List] +
Contact: The FreeBSD Azure Release Engineering Team <[email protected]> +
Contact: Wei Hu <[email protected]> +
Contact: Souradeep Chakrabarti <[email protected]> +
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]> +

In this quarter, we have solved all the blocking issues and published the link:https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-14_0[14.0-RELEASE on Azure Marketplace], with complete architecture (amd64, arm64) and VM generation (gen1, gen2) support, available in both UFS and ZFS as the root file system.

Work in progress tasks:

* Automating the image building and publishing process and merging to [.filename]#src/release/#.
* Building and publishing snapshot builds to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery].

The above tasks are sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation, with resources provided by Microsoft.

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]
* Port link:https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions[Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure]

Sponsor: Microsoft for people in Microsoft, and for resources for the rest +
Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else