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To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, 
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Subject: Re: how to for making bhyve images (using makefs + mkimg)
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On 10/29/14 9:34 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> So, Michael Dexter prodded me to document how I'm doing it, so I put
> up a blog post at:
> http://blog.funkthat.com/2014/10/building-bhyve-images-using-makefs-and.html
>
> It's a quick guide on how to build images using makefs and mkimg.  Only
> time you need root is when you run the VM...
>
> btw, thanks for getting bhyve running on AMD! :)
>
John-Mark, very cool.

Thanks for pointing me at mkimg, will have to look at porting our build 
to use that as opposed to "mdconfig".

-Alfred