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Virtual Machine States and Transitions

Preconditions for commands

The following diagrams show the required virtual machine (VM) states and task states for various commands issued by the user:

../_images/PowerStates1.png ../_images/PowerStates2.png

Create instance states

The following diagram shows the sequence of VM states, task states, and power states when a new VM instance is created.

../_images/run_instance_walkthrough.png