From 53583e8c4e0c4eedda749c6b51a9fc058982baa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li-Wen Hsu Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:45:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Status/2024Q3/azure.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: status (Pau Amma ) Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/436 --- .../status/report-2024-07-2024-09/azure.adoc | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/azure.adoc diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/azure.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/azure.adoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a3a80f1bc55 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/azure.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +=== 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: Souradeep Chakrabarti + +Contact: Colin Su + +Contact: Li-Wen Hsu + +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