NAME

bhyvectl — control utility for bhyve instances

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The bhyvectl command is a control utility for active bhyve(8) virtual machine instances.

Note: Most bhyvectl flags are intended for querying and setting the state of an active instance. These commands are intended for development purposes, and are not documented here. A complete list can be obtained by executing bhyvectl without any arguments.

The user-facing options are as follows:

--vm=<vmname>

Operate on the virtual machine <vmname>.

--create

Create the specified VM.

--destroy

Destroy the specified VM.

--get-stats

Retrieve statistics for the specified VM.

--inject-nmi

Inject a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) into the VM.

--force-reset

Force the VM to reset.

--force-poweroff

Force the VM to power off.

EXIT STATUS

The bhyvectl utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

Destroy the VM called fbsd10:

SEE ALSO

bhyve(8), bhyveload(8)

HISTORY

The bhyvectl command first appeared in FreeBSD 10.1.

AUTHORS

The bhyvectl utility was written by Peter Grehan and Neel Natu.