Unable to stop vm in Bootloader state

[36roentgen]

# vm stop ns1
/usr/local/sbin/vm: ERROR: unable to locate process id for this virtual machine
root@bhyve1:/usr/local/bhyve # vm list
NAME            GUEST           CPU    MEMORY    AUTOSTART    STATE               
ns1             freebsd         2      512M      No           Bootloader (11691)  
ns2             freebsd         1      256M      No           Stopped             
ns_master       freebsd         1      512M      Yes [1]      Running (10604)     
owncloud_demo   freebsd         2      1024M     Yes [3]      Running (6013)      
pg              freebsd         4      4096M     Yes [2]      Running (2012)      
root@bhyve1:/usr/local/bhyve # ps aux |grep 11691
root  11691  100.0  0.0  553440   3884  3  R     1:13AM     0:41.21 bhyveload -c /dev/nmdm3A -m 512M -d /usr/local/bhyve/vm/ns1/ns1 ns1

[churchers]

Yes, normally vm stop is only used to stop the actual bhyve process once the guest is running. It sends a ACPI power button event to the guest (sends a TERM signal to bhyve) which should cause it to shutdown and power itself off like a normal machine.

Normally of course, I would hope that the guest would not get stuck in the bootloader stage. This usually means the guest has been started with vm start before being installed, or something has gone wrong...

I have modified this function so that now, if it can't find a running bhyve process, it will look for a bootloader. If it finds a running bootloader it will ask if you want to force the machine off. Previously you would need to kill the bhyveload or grub-bhyve process manually.

[36roentgen]

Works well, thanks.