libvirt and rebooting of a bhyve VM

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Tue Aug 19 16:03:28 UTC 2014


On Aug 19, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>  Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> 
>> Roman,
>> 
>> I am using libvirt and bhyve according to this XML:
>> http://libvirt.org/drvbhyve.html
>> and it works great.
>> I gave a presentation at BAFUG on this:
>> http://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/libvirt-bhyve
>> 
>> I have one question.  If I reboot the bhyve VM started with libvirt
>> with "shutdown -r now",
>> the VM shuts down, but it does not restart.
>> 
>> How can I get the machine to reboot with "shutdown -r now" when
>> started with libvirt?
> 
> Hi Craig,
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to get the reboot working. Moreover, I
> get the same behaviour when starting bhyve manually -- when I do a
> reboot, bhyve(8) exits as soon as the system is ready to restart.
> 
> So looks like that's a default bhyve behaviour or I'm missing something?

Wasn't changing this the intention of r267216 (MFCed as r270071)?

Roman, was your 10-STABLE built after that revision?

JN



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