On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:11 AM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, February 09, 2014 7:03:41 pm Neel Natu wrote: > > Hi Craig, > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I posted some rc.d scripts that I am using to boot a BHyve VM > > > and send the output to a serial console using the /dev/nmdm > > > driver: > > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2014- > January/002040.html > > > > > > It works quite well. There is some things I would like to improve, > > > and would like some advice on the best way to do it. > > > > > > (1) If the VM was destroyed with bhyvectl --destroy --vm ${VM_NAME}, > > > then I do not want to automatically restart the VM in the script. > > > User should manually: service bhyvevm start > > > > > > (2) If the VM was powered down, via shutdown -p, or halt -p, > > > then in my script I do not want to restart the VM in the script. > > > User should manually: service bhyvevm start > > > > > > (3) If the VM was rebooted via "reboot" or "shutdown -r", > > > then I *do* want the script to restart the VM. > > > > > > I think if I change my start_vm.sh script to do something like: > > > > > > > > > > > > ( > > > while [ -e /dev/vmm/${VM} ]; do > > > /usr/sbin/bhyve -c 16 -m 8G -A -H -P -g 0 -s 0:0,hostbridge -s > 1:0,lpc > > > -s 2:0,virtio-net,${TAP} -s 3:0,virtio-blk,${IMG} -l com1,${CONS_A} > ${VM}" > > > done > > > > > > ) & > > > > > > > > > then this might cover cases (1) and (3), but what will cover > > > case (2)? > > > > The exit code of the bhyve process will be 0 if it exited because the > > guest rebooted and will be non-zero if the guest did an acpi poweroff. > > You can use that to distinguish between cases (2) and (3). > > > > Having said that there are error conditions for which bhyve exits with > > a non-zero exit code. So, we'll need to explicitly define an exit code > > to distinguish between an acpi poweroff and these error conditions. > > OTOH, in all the cases when bhyve exits with a non-zero exit code, you > will want to exit the loop which would treat it the same as shutdown -p. I > think you can just do this: > > while [ -e /dev/vmm/${VM} ]; do > if ! bhyve ...; then > break > fi > done > One question, if "bhyve" exits, do I have to call bhyveload again before calling bhyve? The /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh has a loop which does: while [ 1 ] ; do ... bhyvectl --destroy bhyveload bhyve ... done -- Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
