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Hi Jon,

> Do you think it would be a hard thing to add in to bhyve or is it
> related to something that's already being worked on?

  Quite difficult as it stands with bhyve: there's currently no way to 
dynamically modify a running VM's configuration. This limitation will be 
removed at some point but not in the short term.

later,

Peter.