From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 23:04:18 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 0DE23CA; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 23:04:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gold.funkthat.com", Issuer "gold.funkthat.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C33ED1B08; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 23:04:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.funkthat.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id t52N4FJL099383 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:04:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by gold.funkthat.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id t52N4Fcc099382; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:04:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:04:15 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Andriy Gapon Cc: freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy Message-ID: <20150602230415.GC50817@funkthat.com> References: <556D9163.1080704@FreeBSD.org> <20150602164949.GZ50817@funkthat.com> <556DF2AB.8070507@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <556DF2AB.8070507@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 54BA 873B 6515 3F10 9E88 9322 9CB1 8F74 6D3F A396 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (gold.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:04:16 -0700 (PDT) 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 23:04:18 -0000 Andriy Gapon wrote this message on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 21:15 +0300: > 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. Correct: sh /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh -g 6444 -d mach10s.img -t tap0 It's nice.. shutdown -r now and shutdown -p now both work exactly as you'd expect them to... :) -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."