How to list vms that was started from hyperkit?

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How to list vms that was started from hyperkit?
hyperkit help is only below:

hyperkit -h                                                                                                                             11:25:45
Usage: hyperkit [-behuwxMACHPWY] [-c vcpus] [-F <pidfile>] [-g <gdb port>] [-l <lpc>]
                [-m mem] [-p vcpu:hostcpu] [-s <pci>] [-U uuid] -f <fw>
       -A: create ACPI tables
       -c: # cpus (default 1)
       -C: include guest memory in core file
       -e: exit on unhandled I/O access
       -f: firmware
       -F: pidfile
       -g: gdb port
       -h: help
       -H: vmexit from the guest on hlt
       -l: LPC device configuration. Ex: -l com1,stdio -l com2,autopty -l com2,/dev/myownpty
       -m: memory size in MB, may be suffixed with one of K, M, G or T
       -M: print MAC address and exit if using vmnet
       -P: vmexit from the guest on pause
       -s: <slot,driver,configinfo> PCI slot config
       -u: RTC keeps UTC time
       -U: uuid
       -v: show build version
       -w: ignore unimplemented MSRs
       -W: force virtio to use single-vector MSI
       -x: local apic is in x2APIC mode
       -Y: disable MPtable generation

I can't understand how to list vms.

Answer 1

Since hyperkit is just "a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in your application." it doesn't provide tools to manage the virtual machines directly.

The way you have to see all the virtual machines is:

$ ps -Af | grep hyperkit
0 35982     1   0  2:50PM ttys000    3:27.65 /usr/local/bin/hyperkit -A -u -F /Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/hyperkit.pid -c 2 -m 4000M -s 0:0,hostbridge -s 31,lpc -s 1:0,virtio-net -U 39c5590a-cdac-11ea-b300-acde48001122 -s 2:0,virtio-blk,/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/minikube.rawdisk -s 3,ahci-cd,/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/boot2docker.iso -s 4,virtio-rnd -l com1,autopty=/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/tty,log=/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/console-ring -f kexec,/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/bzimage,/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/initrd,earlyprintk=serial loglevel=3 console=ttyS0 console=tty0 noembed nomodeset norestore waitusb=10 systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller=yes random.trust_cpu=on hw_rng_model=virtio base host=minikube

in case you'll see in the previous command the "-l" flag with a tty available like this "-l com1,autopty=/Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/tty" you'll probably be able to open a serial tty like in How do I see a list of all minikube clusters running in Docker on my mac?:

$ sudo screen /Users/youruser/.minikube/machines/minikube/tty
Welcome to minikube
minikube login: root
                         _             _
            _         _ ( )           ( )
  ___ ___  (_)  ___  (_)| |/')  _   _ | |_      __
/' _ ` _ `\| |/' _ `\| || , <  ( ) ( )| '_`\  /'__`\
| ( ) ( ) || || ( ) || || |\`\ | (_) || |_) )(  ___/
(_) (_) (_)(_)(_) (_)(_)(_) (_)`\___/'(_,__/'`\____)

# docker ps
...  <== shows a bunch of K8s containers