From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 18:16:07 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC9C8287 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:16:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30B42157C for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id VAA27507; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:16:03 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1YzqjL-0002gY-LP; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:16:03 +0300 Message-ID: <556DF2AB.8070507@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:15:07 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney CC: freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy References: <556D9163.1080704@FreeBSD.org> <20150602164949.GZ50817@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150602164949.GZ50817@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:16:07 -0000 On 02/06/2015 19:49, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 14:20 +0300: >> I am very new to bhyve, so sorry if I am asking something silly or obvious. >> I am using bhyve to speed up my testing and it seems that each time I need to >> restart a VM I need to go through the cycle of destroying it with bhyvectl >> --destroy, then re-loading a kernel with bhyveload and then actually booting the >> VM with bhyve. It seems that I have to do this even if I don't change th kernel >> between reboots. My first naive impression was that the point of bhyveload was >> to load the kernel once. Seems it ain't so? > > Hmm... I'm not seeing that here... I just scp a new kernel into the > vm, install it, and run shutdown -r now which drops bhyve back to > loader, and loads the new kernel... I've been doing this quite > successfully over the last few months... > > I am running a month old HEAD though... > I guess you are running bhyve through the shell script vmrun.sh? I am doing everything by hand. -- Andriy Gapon