LXC.STOP(1)

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🌸 NAME

okay so, genuinely, this whole page lives inside the LXD - Command line client(1) manual, and the star of the show today is:

lxc-stop — Stop instances 💅

that's it. that's the job. stopping instances. iconic behaviour, no notes.

🦋 SYNOPSIS

lxc stop [:] [[:]...] [flags]

bestie, look at those brackets. [:] — optional. [[:]...] — optional and repeatable. [flags] — and then whatever flags you feel like sprinkling on top. the square brackets are literally telling you "you do you, girlie". 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION

Description: Stop instances.

that's the whole thing. that's the assignment. you point it at instances, it stops them. lowkey the most main-character one-liner in the whole LXD family. 💖

🔥 OPTIONS

  • --all[=false] — Run against all instances. not one, not two, all of them. the "select all" of the instance world, defaulting to false because we're responsible adults. 👑
  • --console[=""] — Immediately attach to the console. like, right away. no waiting around, no "let me think about it". default is the empty string. 🫶
  • -f, --force[=false] — Force the instance to stop. no gentle asking, no polite negotiation. defaults to false, which is the polite setting. 😭
  • --stateful[=false] — Store the instance state. off by default (false), so you have to opt in to the stateful life. ✨
  • --timeout=-1 — Time to wait for the instance to shutdown cleanly. the default value here is literally -1, ok. that's what it says. 🕐

💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

these ones aren't even lxc stop's own — they're the family hand-me-downs, and they're still slaying:

  • --debug[=false] — Show all debug messages. all of them. the whole firehose. default false. 🐛
  • --force-local[=false] — Force using the local unix socket. default false. 🔌
  • -h, --help[=false] — Print help. the classic. the icon. default false. 🙈
  • --project="" — Override the source project. default is "" (empty, babes). 🎀
  • -q, --quiet[=false] — Don't show progress information. silence is golden, default false. 🤫
  • --sub-commands[=false] — Use with help or --help to view sub-commands. default false. 🧚
  • -v, --verbose[=false] — Show all information messages. default false. the chatty counterpart to --quiet, and honestly the way that they're opposites? obsessed. 💅
  • --version[=false] — Print version number. default false. ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO

  • lxc(1) — the mothership. go read it, iykyk. 🦋

🍓 HISTORY

22-Aug-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra

it wasn't handcrafted by a tiny artisan, it was auto generated by spf13/cobra on 22-Aug-2026, and honestly? it ate. 💀

ngl bestie, remember this whole thing is auto-generated, so if something reads a little dry, blame spf13/cobra, not me. 🫶

okay bye, go stop some instances responsibly — mwah 💖 this page was auto generated by spf13/cobra back in Aug 2026 (version 22-Aug-2026), and it's part of the LXD - Command line client(1) manual. periodt. ✨

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