podman-machine-stop(1)

💖 podman-machine-stop(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the podman-machine-stop manual page — it's giving "how do i make the virtual machine go night-night" and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

podman-machine-stop — Stop a virtual machine 🛑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podman machine stop [name]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like, this command stops a virtual machine. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 💅

The default machine name is podman-machine-default. So if you don't pass a machine name as an argument, then podman-machine-default is the one that gets stopped. fr fr. 🌸

Rootless only. 👑

Now for the lore, bestie: Podman on MacOS and Windows requires a virtual machine. Why? Because containers are Linux — literally, containers do not run on any other OS because containers' core functionality are tied to the Linux kernel. No cap. 🐧 So podman machine must be used to manage MacOS and Windows machines, but it can be optionally used on Linux.

And podman machine stop stops a Linux virtual machine where containers are run. 🦋

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — Print usage statement. (It's the little helper 🫶)

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

Stop a podman machine named myvm. ✨

$ podman machine stop myvm

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

podman(1), podman-machine(1) 🌈

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✨ HISTORY ✨

March 2021, Originally compiled by Ashley Cui acui@redhat.com ⟨mailto:acui@redhat.com⟩ 📜💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this lil legend lives in the podman-machine-stop(1) manual, dated March 2021, and compiled with love by Ashley Cui. go stop that vm, you absolute main character 👑✨