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Hi William,

> Perhaps this is a deficiency that should be addressed in the bootloader
> compontent of libvirt to make this process a bit easier?

  I can't speak too much to libvirt since I didn't do that work, but 
grub-bhyve is really a workaround to boot non-FreeBSD o/s's until a 
UEFI/BIOS solution is done. If the changes to libvirt to support this 
are large, it's most likely not worth it.

later,

Peter.