Starting, stopping, and restarting a desktop
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Updated at April 24, 2025
Starting
Management console
User desktop showcase
- In the management console
, select the folder containing the desktop. - From the list of services, select Cloud Desktop.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Desktops. - Click
next to the desktop you want to start, then select Start. - Confirm launch.
- Open the User desktop showcase
. - On the desktop card you want to start, click
. - Confirm launch.
Restarting
Management console
User desktop showcase
Yandex Cloud CLI
- In the management console
, select the folder containing the desktop. - From the list of services, select Cloud Desktop.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Desktops. - Click
next to the desktop you want to restart, then select Restart. - Confirm restart.
- Open the User desktop showcase
. - On the desktop card you want to restart, click
. - Confirm restart.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.
The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID>
command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using the --folder-name
or --folder-id
parameter.
-
See the description of the CLI command restarting a desktop:
yc desktops desktop restart --help
-
Get a list of desktops in the default folder:
yc desktops desktop list
Result:
+----------------------+------------------+--------+----------------------+---------------------+ | ID | NAME | STATUS | DESKTOP GROUP ID | CREATED (UTC-0) | +----------------------+------------------+--------+----------------------+---------------------+ | e3vmvhgbgac4******** | my-cloud-desktop | ACTIVE | e3v1rbln45tl******** | 2024-10-09 22:42:28 | | e3vio1bc5ppz******** | reserved-desktop | ACTIVE | e3v1rbln45tl******** | 2024-10-09 21:35:17 | +----------------------+------------------+--------+----------------------+---------------------+
-
Select the
ID
orNAME
of the desktop you need, e.g.,my-cloud-desktop
. -
Restart the desktop:
yc desktops desktop restart --name <desktop_name>
Result:
id: e3vmvhgbgac4******** folder_id: b1g681qpemb4******** desktop_group_id: e3v1rbln45tl******** created_at: "2024-10-09T22:42:28.020Z" name: cli-desktop-5-6aa9b029038119b1 resources: memory: "4294967296" cores: "2" core_fraction: "100" network_interfaces: - network_id: enp0asmd9pr9******** subnet_id: e2lb1da2dd9v******** users: - subject_id: aje9k8luj4qf********
Stopping
Management console
User desktop showcase
- In the management console
, select the folder containing the desktop. - From the list of services, select Cloud Desktop.
- In the left-hand panel, select
Desktops. - Click
next to the desktop you want to stop, then select Stop. - Confirm stop.
- Open the User desktop showcase
. - On the desktop card you want to stop, click
. - Confirm stop.