Re: GSoC 2016 Bringing NetBSD to Microsoft Azure

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Mar 4, 10:21pm, retrage01%gmail.com@localhost (Moroo Akira) wrote:
> -- Subject: GSoC 2016 Bringing NetBSD to Microsoft Azure
>
> | Hello.
> |
> | I would like to participate in Google Code of Summer this year.
> | I am interested in "Bringing NetBSD to Microsoft Azure" on the idea list.
> | Could you tell me more about detail of this idea?
> | Thank you.
>
> Since this has been already done for FreeBSD it should be simple enough
> to follow their steps and make similar changes in NetBSD. As a first step
> you probably don't need to port the specialized drivers that will improve
> the performance drastically, but porting the drivers is part of the project.
>
> Here are the FreeBSD instructions to boot on Azure:
>
>    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/running-freebsd-in-azure/
>
> Please let us know if you need more details.

And presumably, this is pretty similar to running NetBSD on Hyper-V.

--
Stephen