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Managing Virtual Machines

CloudRift CLI provides commands for managing the lifecycle of virtual machine instances on your cluster.

Starting a VM​

To start a stopped virtual machine instance:

rift virt start <instance_id>

Stopping a VM​

To stop a running virtual machine instance:

rift virt stop <instance_id>

Pausing and Resuming a VM​

Pausing freezes vCPU execution while keeping the VM's resources allocated. You can address the VM by its id or its human-readable name:

rift virt pause <id_or_name>
rift virt resume <id_or_name>
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Billing continues while a VM is paused, since its resources stay allocated.

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Providers and admins can start and stop VMs on their nodes. Regular users can manage their own instances.