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VM Lifecycle and SSH Access in KubeVirt

A KubeVirt VM has four lifecycle verbs: start, stop, pause, and unpause. Stop deletes the VirtualMachineInstance and its virt-launcher pod — memory and CPU are released. Pause freezes the guest at the hypervisor level but keeps the pod and memory in place. Stop is cheap; pause is instant. You drive …