Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:26:30 +0200 From: Leo Lundberg <leo.lundberg99@ikmail.com> To: virtualization@freebsd.org, freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Graceful shutdown of Bhyve VM? Message-ID: <D72BC7A4-F569-4053-A937-10043F364AAC@ikmail.com> In-Reply-To: <DE343D95-BD67-4C03-A111-2D310F3E84AF@raifra.de> References: <06b91174-b5d3-4203-9115-75b1e38a805d@ikmail.com> <DE343D95-BD67-4C03-A111-2D310F3E84AF@raifra.de>
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Thank you! I managed to miss that part in the handbook unfortunately :( On 25 June 2026 12:13:53 CEST, "Rainer Frädrich" <mail@raifra.de> wrote: > >Hello, > >I use the way described in the FreeBSD Handbook, works perfectly for me: > >Bye, Rainer > >————— >Quote: >Destroying a virtual machine this way means killing it immediately. Any unsaved data will be lost, >open files and filesystems may get corrupted. > > >To gracefully shut down a virtual machine, send a >TERM signal to its bhyve process instead. This triggers an ACPI shutdown event for the guest: > ># ps ax | grep bhyve >17424 - SC 56:48.27 bhyve: guestvm (bhyve) ># kill 17424 > >———— > > >On 25 Jun 2026, at 12:05, Leo wrote: > >> Hello, I'm using bhyve without any front-ends like the vm-bhyve package and whatnot, I was wondering how to properly perform a graceful shutdown of a VM without explicitly calling shutdown within it. I know qemu can send an ACPI shutdown signal to it, and apparently vm-bhyve can do something similar but it isn't clear through what mechanism it does this. >> >> / Leo >home | help
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