Solene Rapenne <sol...@perso.pw> wrote: > This diff explains a little more about the send commands. > send pauses the VM and send its memory + the start parameters. >
new diff with some changes, also thx bentley@ for telling me sentences should start on a newline in mdoc. Index: vmctl.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/vmctl/vmctl.8,v retrieving revision 1.47 diff -u -p -r1.47 vmctl.8 --- vmctl.8 11 Sep 2018 04:03:16 -0000 1.47 +++ vmctl.8 19 Sep 2018 10:20:06 -0000 @@ -90,6 +90,13 @@ Reset and terminate all VMs. Send a VM with the specified .Ar id to standard output and terminate it. +The VM is paused while send is processing. +Data sent to standard output contains the VM parameters and its memory, +not the disk image. +.Pp +In order to move a VM from one host to another, disk files must be +synced between the send and the receive processes and must be located +under the same path. .It Cm show Op Ar id An alias for the .Cm status