docker-docs/machine/reference/stop.md

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Gracefully stop a machine	machine, stop, subcommand	docker-machine stop	true

Usage: docker-machine stop [arg...]

Gracefully Stop a machine

Description:
   Argument(s) are one or more machine names.

For example:

$ docker-machine ls

NAME   ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL
dev    *        virtualbox   Running   tcp://192.168.99.104:2376

$ docker-machine stop dev
$ docker-machine ls

NAME   ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL
dev    *        virtualbox   Stopped