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Hi Takuya,

> I implemented standalone binary loader for BHyVe.
> This allows to load custom program on guest memory area, and run it from
> specified entry point address.
> I wrote this for test code of BHyVe suspend/resume project(Yoneji Iori's
> work), but it might be useful for some other purposes.

  Nice work. This could be useful to build a test suite on top of e.g. 
to exercise the instruction emulation.

later,

Peter.