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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:14:04 UTC
The branch main has been updated by lwhsu: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=4c946db3054255c3a008bbe01723f8bd89855dc8 commit 4c946db3054255c3a008bbe01723f8bd89855dc8 Author: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-07-21 19:13:52 +0000 Commit: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-07-21 19:13:52 +0000 Add Azure 2023Q2 status report Reviewed by: salvadore, Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41126 --- .../en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/azure.adoc | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/azure.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/azure.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..39a41c5d3b --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/azure.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +=== 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 <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: Souradeep Chakrabarti <schakrabarti@microsoft.com> + +Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org> + + +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