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  machine  must  be  used  to  manage  MacOS  and  Windows
       machines, but can be optionally 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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