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Hi Julian,
>>> A virtual switch for bhyve would be a useful feature if there aren't any
>>> plans for one.  Get up there and have it in base. ;)
>>
>>  This has been talked about quite a bit, though nothing concrete.
> Allowing bhyve to talk to netgraph would instantly give this. I think
> you can already do it by
> hooking the tap device into the netgraph graph. (I haven't done this for
> ages bt it used to work)
> at one time virtual box could also use netgraph for its networking. Not
> sure if it still can.

  While I don't doubt the utility of being able to hook VMs to netgraph, 
what I was thinking (hoping) was something like a cloneable tap-like 
interface to bridge(4) that avoided having to create discrete tap 
interfaces and bind them to bridge.

later,

Peter.