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Hi Conrad,

> Unless I'm mistaken, the userspace loaders are still needed to boot
> VMs for now.

  That's correct.

> Will the Bhyve UEFI work be complete before MeetBSD?

  Most likely not.

> And is it going into the FreeBSD 10 release branch, or only in 11?

  It will be MFCable.

> Until that code actually materializes, I think it's important to fix
> libvirt now. This change doesn't break a future Bhyve-that-supports
> EUFI, and it can even be yanked out later if totally redundant.

  Good - I just wanted to make sure this change (or characterization of 
bhyve as PV) wasn't something that would hurt long-term.

later,

Peter.