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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:09:51 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy
Message-ID:  <556E37BF.8090901@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150602230415.GC50817@funkthat.com>
References:  <556D9163.1080704@FreeBSD.org> <20150602164949.GZ50817@funkthat.com> <556DF2AB.8070507@FreeBSD.org> <20150602230415.GC50817@funkthat.com>

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On 2015-06-02 19:04, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 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... :)
>

yes, vmrun.sh puts bhyve in a while loop.

-- 
Allan Jude



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