---
description: Gracefully stop a machine
keywords: machine, stop, subcommand
title: docker-machine stop
---

```none
Usage: docker-machine stop [arg...]

Gracefully Stop a machine

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

For example:

```bash
$ 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
```