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Hi Allan,

> If/When bhyve gets the UEFI boot stuff to be able to do 'any OS' (from
> my understanding, this is the approach that will be used for Windows),
> would that remove the requirement for UG to boot Linux, if it was booted
> via UEFI?

  It cements the UG requirement even further: UEFI is a form of BIOS 
ROM, which requires starting the VM in x86 real-mode power-on state.

later,

Peter.