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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.