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Subject: Re: libvirt and rebooting of a bhyve VM
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> The name of the vm is in the title of the bhyve process, but yes, it

Hmm, OK, that would require me to grep the processes and send SIGTERM
to the right pid.
That's not ideal, especially if I start lots of VM's, but it is workable.

> would be nice to expose the ACPI style shutdown via bhyvectl
> --graceful-shutdown or something

Yes, it would.

>
> The question is, inside the while loop, after bhyve exits, does
> /dev/vmm/<vmname> still exist?

Yes, /dev/vmm/<vmname> still exists when bhyve exists,
no matter if it is a "shutdown -r" , or "shutdown -p".


--
Craig