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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/subscription/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: Colin Su <[email protected]> +
Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]>

In this quarter, we have published the link:https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/marketplace/apps/thefreebsdfoundation.freebsd-13_4[13.4-RELEASE on Azure Marketplace].

Souradeep Chakrabarti from Microsoft has added a feature to use hypercalls for TLB shootdown on Hyper-V and Azure.
Micro-benchmark shows 30-40% performance improvement on TLB shootdown.
This has been presented at the link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202409[DevSummit 202409]

Wei Hu root-caused an issue on missing CDROM device when booting FreeBSD on the latest Azure v6 VM SKU.
V6 type only offers NVMe disks to guest OS.
He also continues bug fixing for FreeBSD MANA NIC device.

Work in progress tasks:

* Automating the image publishing process and merging to [.filename]#src/release/#. (Li-Wen Hsu)
* Colin Su is testing adding FreeBSD support in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/products/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines]
** https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/3266[]
** Building and publishing snapshot builds to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery].

Open tasks:

* Update FreeBSD-related doc 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]

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