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Subject: Re: bhyve and backed-up dd disk image
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From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
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Hi,

> Would I be able to spin up in bhyve a disk image that had been
> obtained from the disk of a bare-metal standard freebsd installation?

  In theory, yes. There will always be some issues with differences in 
devices (e.g. using igb0 on the host, but vtnet0 in the guest).

later,

Peter.