Re: Graceful shutdown of Bhyve VM?

Hello,

I use the way described in the FreeBSD Handbook, works perfectly for me:

Bye, Rainer

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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

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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.
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> / Leo