diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/azure.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/azure.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/azure.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +=== 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 both UFS and ZFS based 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 +* FreeBSD-CURRENT-zfs-testing +* FreeBSD-CURRENT-zfs-gen1-testing + +To use them, when creating a virtual machine: + +. In `Select an Image` step, choose `Community Images` in `Other items` +. Search `FreeBSD` + +We are aiming to provide all those images for 14.0-RELEASE. + +Work in progress tasks: + +* Automating the image building and publishing process and merge to src/release/. +* Building and publishing all supported 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 have fixed several critical bugs in arm64: + +* https://bugs.freebsd.org/267654 +* https://bugs.freebsd.org/272461 +* https://bugs.freebsd.org/272666 + +The root cause was identified and fixed in link:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e7a9817b8d328dda04069b65944ce2ed6f54c6f0[e7a9817b8d32: Hyper-V: vmbus: implementat bus_get_dma_tag in vmbus] + +And continue working on improving Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) support. + +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