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start, stop, restart — power control

ssh chroot.dev start name

ssh chroot.dev stop name

ssh chroot.dev restart name

start boots a stopped VM. stop is a clean shutdown. restart is a clean shutdown and a cold boot.

Disks survive all three. Stopped VMs still count against the limits in chroot.dev(7).

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