git: bc50dca02e - main - Status/2026Q2/azure.adoc: Add report

Lorenzo Salvadore <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:10:36 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The branch main has been updated by salvadore:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=bc50dca02ee3250b4818e56817018591a0e06f09

commit bc50dca02ee3250b4818e56817018591a0e06f09
Author:     Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: 2026-07-14 06:46:02 +0000
Commit:     Lorenzo Salvadore <[email protected]>
CommitDate: 2026-07-23 19:10:11 +0000

    Status/2026Q2/azure.adoc: Add report
    
    Pull Request:   https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/700
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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]>, <[email protected]> +
+Contact: Li-Wen Hsu <[email protected]>
+
+Publishing the 15.1-RELEASE image to Azure Marketplace is in progress.
+It is expected to become publicly available early in the third quarter.
+
+Li-Wen is investigating the technical details needed to support Azure Trusted Launch.
+
+Wei and Li-Wen, together with other Microsoft engineers, are investigating an issue preventing mana(4) from working correctly on AMD-based Azure VMs.
+The mana(4) device is present on the latest v7-generation Azure VMs.
+
+Work in progress tasks:
+
+* Automating the image publishing process and merging it into [.filename]#src/release/#.
+* Making the process of publishing to Azure Marketplace smoother.
+* Supporting FreeBSD in link:https://github.com/Azure/azure-vm-utils/[Azure VM utilities].
+
+Open tasks:
+
+* Update FreeBSD-related documentation 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].
+* Add FreeBSD support in link:https://azure.microsoft.com/products/devops/pipelines/[Azure Pipelines].
+** link:https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/3266[]
+** Build and publish snapshot builds to link:https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/share-gallery-community[Azure community gallery].
+
+Sponsor: Microsoft for people in Microsoft, and for resources for the rest +
+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation for everything else