The multipass suspend command without any argument will suspend the primary instance (and fail, if it doesn’t exist). You can also pass one or more instance names or the --all option to suspend more instances at the same time.
Only instances in Running status can be suspended.
For example:
multipass stop boisterous-tortoise
multipass suspend boisterous-tortoise
If check your instances with multipass list, you’ll see that its status is now set to Suspended:
Name State IPv4 Image
boisterous-tortoise Suspended -- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Suspended instances can be resumed with the multipass start command.
The full multipass help suspend output explains the available options:
Usage: multipass suspend [options] [<name> ...]
Suspend the named instances, if running. Exits with
return code 0 if successful.
Options:
-h, --help Display this help
-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 Suspend all instances
Arguments:
name Names of instances to suspend. If omitted, and without the
--all option, 'primary' will be assumed.
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