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Will haben wrote this message on Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 17:21 +0200:
> Is it possible to load a physical Windows partition within bhyve? The windows installation is on a separate hard drive that???s using MBR. 
> I found the possibility of transforming the drive to a VMware virtual drive and then to bhyve img. 

Have you just tried to point the disk image at your HD?  This should
"just work" as zvol (which is one way to run a VM) works, and a disk
isn't any different...

bhyve doesn't have a format, it's just raw disk images..

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