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Hi sym,

> So, is it actually possibe to run Linux VMs today, given the userland
> tools in -CURRENT?

  Not quite - I have yet to commit the AHCI emulation that came out of 
this year's GSoC project to allow an install from ISO. Also, bhyveload 
isn't used for Linux - I have a modified version of grub2's grub-emu 
target. I'm putting together a port for that.

later,

Peter.