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releng-gce: Advertise the availability of gVNIC support in GCE images.
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Authored by delphij on Jan 12 2024, 5:15 AM.
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Summary

This marks FreeBSD GCE images as gVNIC capable by adding the
--guest-os-features=GVNIC flag at creation time as suggested in GCE
documentation[1]. This allows Generation 3 and newer GCE instances
to leverage advanced networking capabilities and performance
enhancements provided by gVNIC. Users will benefit from these
improvements without needing to create custom images.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking/using-gvnic#create_a_vm_with_gvnic_support

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Just to confirm, this will land in stable/13 and stable/14? It looks like we have the gve driver in both.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 12 2024, 5:33 AM

Just to confirm, this will land in stable/13 and stable/14? It looks like we have the gve driver in both.

Yes, the driver is already there, this would advertise their availability to GCE; otherwise users would have to create custom images just for it.