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Subject: Re: bhyve and backed-up dd disk image
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On 29/9/17 10:37 pm, tech-lists wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Would I be able to spin up in bhyve a disk image that had been
> obtained from the disk of a bare-metal standard freebsd installation?
>
> thanks,

It depends on whether you have the required virtio devices in the 
kernel, or can load them from the bootloader.