podman-machine-stop(1) General Commands Manual podman-machine-stop(1)
NAME
podman-machine-stop - Stop a virtual machine
SYNOPSIS
podman machine stop [name]
DESCRIPTION
Stops a virtual machine.
The default machine name is podman-machine-default. If a machine name is
not specified as an argument, then podman-machine-default will be
stopped.
Rootless only.
Podman on MacOS and Windows requires a virtual machine. This is because
containers are Linux - containers do not run on any other OS because
containers' core functionality are tied to the Linux kernel. Podman ma-
chine must be used to manage MacOS and Windows machines, but can be op-
tionally used on Linux.
podman machine stop stops a Linux virtual machine where containers are
run.
OPTIONS
--help
Print usage statement.
EXAMPLES
Stop a podman machine named myvm.
$ podman machine stop myvm
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-machine(1)
HISTORY
March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com
⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩
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