Delayed stop

[sergiusens]

In order to make unexpected user reuse of a VM more pleasant, at least when driven programmatically, it would be nice to be able to specify a stop delay such that

multipass stop <instance-name> --delay 10m

Would only stop the instance after 10 minutes, stopping can be canceled by calling

multipass start <instance-name>

or use of any other interaction.

[Saviq]

Sure, I think we can have something like that. We should probably try and reproduce shutdown's time parsing or so.

[townsend2010]

I told @sergiusens that I would try to get this done in time for his Brussels demo:)

[townsend2010]

Here is my proposed cli usage:

$ multipass stop my-vm --time +m
where m is the number of minutes to delay before shutting down. Also, -t will be supported for the short option.

To cancel a delayed shutdown, either:
$ multipass stop my-vm --cancel (-c is also supported)
or
$ multipass start my-vm
will cancel any delayed shutdowns.