Thank you! I managed to miss that part in the handbook unfortunately :( On 25 June 2026 12:13:53 CEST, "Rainer Frädrich" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hello, > >I use the way described in the FreeBSD Handbook, works perfectly for me: > >Bye, Rainer > >————— >Quote: >Destroying a virtual machine this way means killing it immediately. Any >unsaved data will be lost, >open files and filesystems may get corrupted. > > >To gracefully shut down a virtual machine, send a >TERM signal to its bhyve process instead. This triggers an ACPI shutdown event >for the guest: > ># ps ax | grep bhyve >17424 - SC 56:48.27 bhyve: guestvm (bhyve) ># kill 17424 > >———— > > >On 25 Jun 2026, at 12:05, Leo wrote: > >> Hello, I'm using bhyve without any front-ends like the vm-bhyve package and >> whatnot, I was wondering how to properly perform a graceful shutdown of a VM >> without explicitly calling shutdown within it. I know qemu can send an ACPI >> shutdown signal to it, and apparently vm-bhyve can do something similar but >> it isn't clear through what mechanism it does this. >> >> / Leo >
