Pausing a Virtual Machine

Pausing a running virtual machine releases the resources, such as RAM and CPU, currently used by this virtual machine. The released resources can then be used by the Parallels server or other running virtual machines and Containers.

To pause a virtual machine, you can use the pctl pause command. For example, the following command pauses the My_VM virtual machine:

# pctl pause My_VM

Pause the VM...

The VM has been successfully paused.

You can check that the virtual machine has been successfully paused by using the pctl list -a command:

# pctl list -a

STATUS IP_ADDR NAME

running 10.10.10.101 101

paused 10.10.10.201 My_VM

The command output shows that the My_VM virtual machine is paused at the moment. To continue running this virtual machine, execute this command:

# pctl start My_VM

Starting the VM...

The VM has been successfully started.