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Supported FreeBSD virtual machines on Hyper-V

The following feature distribution map indicates the features in each version. The known issues and workarounds for each distribution are listed after the table.

Table legend

  • Built in - BIS (FreeBSD Integration Service) are included as part of this FreeBSD release.

  • ✔ - Feature available

  • (blank) - Feature not available

Feature Windows Server operating system version 13.0-13.5 12.0-12.4 11.0-11.4
Availability Built in Built in Built in
Core 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016 Accurate Time 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016
Networking
Jumbo frames 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2 ✔ Note 2 ✔ Note 2 ✔ Note 2
VLAN tagging and trunking 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Live migration 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Static IP Injection 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2 ✔ Note 3 ✔ Note 3 ✔ Note 3
vRSS 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
TCP Segmentation and Checksum Offloads 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Large Receive Offload (LRO) 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
SR-IOV 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016
Storage Note 1 Note1 Note 1
VHDX resize 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2 ✔ Note 6 ✔ Note 6 ✔ Note 6
Virtual Fibre Channel 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Live virtual machine backup 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
TRIM support 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
SCSI WWN 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Memory
PAE Kernel Support 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Configuration of MMIO gap 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Dynamic Memory - Hot-Add 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Dynamic Memory - Ballooning 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Runtime Memory Resize 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016
Video
Hyper-V specific video device 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Miscellaneous
Key/value pair 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Non-Maskable Interrupt 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
File copy from host to guest 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
lsvmbus command 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Hyper-V Sockets 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016
PCI Passthrough/DDA 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016
Generation 2 virtual machines
Boot using UEFI 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012 R2
Secure boot 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016

Notes

  1. Suggest to Label Disk Devices to avoid ROOT MOUNT ERROR during startup.

  2. 9126 is the maximum supported MTU size.

  3. In a failover scenario, you cannot set a static IPv6 address in the replica server. Use an IPv4 address instead.