alpine stop

Description

Stops one or more running or paused instances.

Usage

alpine stop <instance> [<instance>...]

Aliases

shutdown, poweroff, off

Details

This command sends a signal to the QEMU process to shut down the virtual machine gracefully. If the instance is in a Paused state, it will be resumed before being stopped.

You can stop multiple instances by listing their names or using tags.

# Stop a single instance
alpine stop my-vm

# Stop multiple instances
alpine stop vm1 vm2