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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 7, 2012
+.Dd October 7, 2015
.Dt BHYVELOAD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@
guest inside a bhyve virtual machine
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
+.Op Fl S
.Op Fl c Ar cons-dev
.Op Fl d Ar disk-path
.Op Fl e Ar name=value
.Op Fl h Ar host-path
+.Op Fl l Ar os-loader
.Op Fl m Ar mem-size
.Ar vmname
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ is based on
and will present an interface identical to the
.Fx
loader on the user's terminal.
+This behavior can be changed by specifying a different OS loader.
.Pp
The virtual machine is identified as
.Ar vmname
@@ -77,7 +80,9 @@ The
.Ar disk-path
is the pathname of the guest's boot disk image.
.It Fl e Ar name=value
-Set the FreeBSD loader environment variable
+Set the
+.Fx
+loader environment variable
.Ar name
to
.Ar value .
@@ -88,6 +93,15 @@ variable.
The
.Ar host-path
is the directory at the top of the guest's boot filesystem.
+.It Fl l Ar os-loader
+Specify a different OS loader.
+By default
+.Nm
+will use
+.Pa /boot/userboot.so ,
+which presents a standard
+.Fx
+loader.
.It Fl m Ar mem-size Xo
.Sm off
.Op Cm K | k | M | m | G | g | T | t
@@ -111,8 +125,10 @@ respectively.
The default value of
.Ar mem-size
is 256M.
-.El
+.It Fl S
+Wire guest memory.
.Sh EXAMPLES
+.El
To create a virtual machine named
.Ar freebsd-vm
that boots off the ISO image
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