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Hi Willem,

> Would it it be possible in the meantime to enhance grub2-bhyve with the
> same possibility as bhyve itself has for the console?
>
> So I can redirect grub screen access to /dev/nmdm12041, and one can even
> use this channel to see the grubscreen during rebooting.
>
> Or if it is not that hard, give some pointers to write it myself.

  Conrad contributed this to grub-bhyve with
      https://github.com/grehan-freebsd/grub2-bhyve/pull/2

  It's available in v0.30 which has been in ports for a while now:

      https://github.com/grehan-freebsd/grub2-bhyve/releases/tag/v0.30

later,

Peter.