Stop

$ cf dev stop

This will shut down the PCF Dev VM while preserving all of the data you've added to it. The following is the typical output from this command:

$ cf dev stop Stopping VM...PCF Dev is now stopped.

The result in VirtualBox is as follows:

Use cf dev start to restart a stopped PCF Dev VM.

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