[vm-bhyve] shutting down VMs and kern.init_shutdown_timeout

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 2019-04-29 09:45, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

> What’s keeping you from increasing that timeout for your
> particular requirements? IMHO 2 minutes are a reasonable
> default for a system that does not run hypervisor VMs -
> which is probably the vast majority.
> 
> Anyone with the knowledge to implement a virtualized
> environment can simply set that to a more suitable value,
> can’t he/she?

The problem is: what is a reasonable value?

Shutting down Windows can take literally hours if there are pending 
updates; that's of course unacceptable if you are running other services 
and need them up again in a reasonable time.

Solution, of course, is not shutting down VMs, but suspending them.
IIRC that is coming in bhyve in the future.

  bye
	av.