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Everyday usage of Homestead

There are various commands that you can use to interact with your Homestead 

virtual machine. For example, if the virtual machine is running, how do you stop it? 

There are two ways.

The first method is with the 

$ homestead suspend

 command. This will save the 

current state of your VM, and allow you to 

$ homestead resume

 at a later point 

in time. Alternatively, you can issue the 

$ homestead halt

 command, which will 

shut down the virtual machine and discard anything in memory. You can think of 

the differences as either putting the virtual machine to sleep, or completely shutting 

it down. To bring a halted VM back, you can simply run the 

$ homestead up

 

command again.

You can also interact and run commands on the virtual machine via the command 

line. You can SSH into Homestead just like you would an external server. Instead of 

having to remember the virtual machine's host name and your credentials though, 

there's a handy 

$ homestead ssh

 command that will connect to the machine and 

then place you in a command prompt ready and waiting. If you are using Windows, 

there are various tools to execute SSH commands, such as PuTTY.