bhyvectl VM is not created

[martinrame]

Hi, I'm launching a Bhyve VM from a script:

bhyve \
    -c 2 \
    -m 4G \
    -H -w \
    -s 0,hostbridge \
    -s 3,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/datos/vms/Windows7/os_disk \
    -s 5,virtio-net,tap1 \
    -s 30,xhci,tablet \
    -s 31,lpc \
    -l com1,stdio \
    -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \
    windows_7

Now I would like to restart or get info from it using bhyvectl, but I'm getting this:

bhyvectl --force-reset --vm=windows_7
VM:windows_7 is not created.

I there a way to let bhyvectl know this VM without risk of deletion?.

 

[xtouqh]

From bhyve(8):

vmname      Alphanumeric name of the guest

May be it does not like the _?

Try checking how it reports itself in process list:

$ pgrep -lf bhyve
4411 bhyve: sirius
68319 bhyve: orion

 

[martinrame]

No, I think the problem is because I didn't create it using bhyvectl --create, heres the result of pgrep

pgrep -lf bhyve 
91493 bhyve: windows_7
2312 bhyve: ioh-ubuntu16.04

 

[xtouqh]

That looks good. Probably stupid question, but are you running bhyvectl as root?

 

[martinrame]

Hehe, no I wasn't, that was the issue. Thanks!