Manual Pages  — BHYVECTL

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.
--checkpoint= <filename>
	Save a snapshot of a virtual machine. The guest memory contents are saved in the file given in <filename>. The guest device and vCPU state are saved in the file <filename>.kern.
--suspend= <filename>
	Save a snapshot of a virtual machine similar to --checkpoint. The virtual machine will terminate after the snapshot has been saved.