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NetBSD/azure -- Bringing NetBSD to Microsoft Azure
- Contact: port-xen
- Mentors: Christos Zoulas
- Duration estimate: 3 months
IMPORTANT: This project was completed by NONAKA Kimihiro. You may still contact the people above for details, but please do not submit an application for this project.
Microsoft's cloud platform WindowsAzure has ec2-like features of creating custom virtual disks.
Would it be possible to push NetBSD onto this platform?
Yes !
Kimihiro Nonaka (nonakap@) did the port in a branch on github.
With his patch applied, you can boot NetBSD on MS Azure: dmesg
Wikipedia article describing the virtualization platform
Marketing material about azure virtual machines
FreeBSD drivers for the Hyper-V virtual machine interface
Milestones for this project:
- process for automatically building azure-friendly images, similar to amazon AMI
Instructions on how to build a FreeBSD image: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/05/22/running-freebsd-in-azure/
Instructions on how to build a Linux image: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-tutorial/
Images can be published on http://vmdepot.msopentech.com when complete
How to customize and republish an image once a base image is available in VM Depot: https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/tutorial/freeBSD.html