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Milind Shastri
Asked: 2020-06-07 11:49:42 +0800 CST

start/stop a Google Cloud VM from desktop

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I have a VM running on Google cloud that I would like to start and stop.

I am able to start/stop it from another VM in the same project using the command

sudo gcloud compute instances stop my-daily-data-vm --zone us-central1-c

Now, I would like to start/stop it from my Windows desktop. (FYI I do have gsutil installed on it). Is there a way I can do this?

Thank you :)

google-cloud-platform google-compute-engine gcloud gsutil

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The same gcloud CLI is available for Windows in your Command Prompt or Powershell. Here's the quickstart from Google.

    The command to start/stop your VM is the exact same on all platforms.

    p.s. don't use sudo for the gcloud command.

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