bhyve: bhyveload, bhyve, bhyvectl --destroy

[Andriy Gapon]

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.

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Andriy Gapon