clarify persistent volumes and relationship to shutdown

GitHub issue #40 Feature Proposed ccostantinivia discord Dec 28, 2025 View Discord message View GitHub mirror

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Author: ccostantini Channel: #feedback Link: https://discord.com/channels/1405685085923049482/1405686161791516873/1454937026251198515

Nothing. I have deleted it. I ran the command to see what would happen. From a customer experience standpoint people familiar with VMs know they can shut them down. Maybe remove the ability to call the command or alias to reboot. They also might think the persistent disks are like persistent volumes with containers or EBS volume for an ec2 instance. My understanding this is a short coming of kata containers. So unless you are snapshotting the volume you can’t persist data between instances. At least to me persistence means the data persists even when the instance/vm is gone.

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josharianvia github Dec 28, 2025

The OP above has some preceding context.

Original message:

Hi, when running sudo shutdown now the machine shuts down as expected but there is no way to start it back up. Based on the current documentation, there appears no way to recover the vm. The statement that the disks are persistent makes me think I can ssh exe.dv rm and then create a new one but I don't know how to attach the persistent disk. When I am in the exe.dev console, I run ls it shows the shutdown vm as running but I am unable to connect. error message is SSH handshake failed: ssh: handshake failed: EOF. If I try to ssh <vm-name It shows the error: Instance 'asteroid-owl' is not running and then outputs the the instance log. I can share that if you would like it.

my reply:

Yeah, this is still WIP. The rough plan (no promises) is that we'll have a "trash can"/"recycle bin" that you can restore VMs from for a limited duration. But unlike other cloud providers where you pay per running VM, on exe you don't, so you don't need to shutdown VMs to save money. And disks are not detachable from the VMs (at least according to near term plans). Did you have something valuable on that VM that you want us to try to help you recover?