stop

The multipass stop command without any argument will stop the Primary instance (and fail, if it doesn’t exist). You can also pass one or more instance names or the --all option to stop more instances at the same time.

Note

Only instances in Running status can be stopped.

Stopped instances can be started again with multipass start.

You can use the --force option (available starting from Multipass version 1.14) to stop the instance when it is in a non-responsive, unknown or suspended state. It can also be used with the --all option to stop all instances forcefully.

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The full multipass help stop output explains the available options:

Usage: multipass stop [options] [<name> ...]
Stop the named instances. Exits with return code 0
if successful.

Options:
  -h, --help         Displays help on commandline options
  -v, --verbose      Increase logging verbosity. Repeat the 'v' in the short
                     option for more detail. Maximum verbosity is obtained with
                     4 (or more) v's, i.e. -vvvv.
  --all              Stop all instances
  -t, --time <time>  Time from now, in minutes, to delay shutdown of the
                     instance
  -c, --cancel       Cancel a pending delayed shutdown
  --force            Force the instance to shut down immediately. Warning: This
                     could potentially corrupt a running instance, so use with
                     caution.

Arguments:
  name               Names of instances to stop. If omitted, and without the
                     --all option, 'primary' will be assumed.