Sleep/wake cycles on Mac and running instances

Project Discussion Multipass
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Hello,

I often close the lid on my M2 Macbook and resume working with it after a while. I never manually stop or suspend the Multipass VMs. So far I haven’t encountered any issues.

My question is whether such use is supported by Multipass? Am I just lucky to not cause any VM image corruption or is this actually defined behavior and supported by Multipass?

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Hello @exec1,

Yes, this is expected behaviour. Multipass will automatically suspend your VMs when you close the lid and then resume them when you bring your Macbook out of sleep.