[PATCH 1/2] bhyve: Support /domain/bootloader configuration for non-FreeBSD guests.

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Conrad,

> Also, flip Bhyve /domain/os/type support from HVM to Xen. Bhyve only
> supports paravirtualized guests, and 'xen' is closest to that.

  That's not true: bhyve has enough h/w emulation required to run 
unmodified guests - there are register-level emulations of the local 
APIC, I/O APIC, PIT, PIC, RTC, HPET, APCI timer, PCI/PCIe support, and AHCI.

  While virtio devices may be categorised as PV, in reality they're seen 
by a guest o/s as PCI devices and can be considered HVM.

  The bhyveload/grub-bhyve user-space loaders are an artifact of how 
bhyve was initially developed - they will be made redundant when the 
UEFI work is done, at which point bhyve will have a BIOS.

later,

Peter.