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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+from marvin.cloudstackTestCase import *
+from marvin.factory.data.account import *
+from marvin.factory.data.vm import *
+from should_dsl import *
+from marvin.util import *
+from nose.plugins.attrib import attr
+
+
+class TestVpcLifeCycle(cloudstackTestCase):
+
+    @classmethod
+    def setUpClass(cls):
+        cls.apiclient = super(TestVpcLifeCycle, cls).getClsTestClient().getApiClient()
+        cls.zoneid = get_zone(cls.apiclient).id
+        cls.templateid = get_template(cls.apiclient).id,
+        cls.serviceofferingid = get_service_offering(cls.apiclient).id,
+        cls.account = UserAccount(
+            apiclient=cls.apiclient
+        )
+
+    @attr(tags='debug')
+    def test_deployvm(self):
+        vm = VpcVirtualMachine(
+            apiclient=self.apiclient,
+            account=self.account.name,
+            domainid=self.account.domainid,
+            zoneid=self.zoneid,
+            templateid=self.templateid,
+            serviceofferingid=self.serviceofferingid
+        )
+        vm.state | should | equal_to('Running')
+
+    def test_stopvm(self):
+        vm = VpcVirtualMachine(
+            apiclient=self.apiclient,
+            account=self.account.name,
+            domainid=self.account.domainid,
+            zoneid=self.zoneid,
+            templateid=self.templateid,
+            serviceofferingid=self.serviceofferingid
+        )
+        vm.stop()
+        vm.state | should | equal_to('Stopped')
+
+    def test_startvm(self):
+        vm = VpcVirtualMachine(
+            apiclient=self.apiclient,
+            account=self.account.name,
+            domainid=self.account.domainid,
+            zoneid=self.zoneid,
+            templateid=self.templateid,
+            serviceofferingid=self.serviceofferingid
+        )
+        vm.stop()
+        vm.start()
+        vm.state | should | equal_to('Running')
+
+    def test_rebootvm(self):
+        vm = VpcVirtualMachine(
+            apiclient=self.apiclient,
+            account=self.account.name,
+            domainid=self.account.domainid,
+            zoneid=self.zoneid,
+            templateid=self.templateid,
+            serviceofferingid=self.serviceofferingid
+        )
+        vm.reboot()
+        vm.state | should | equal_to('Running')
+
+    def test_destroyvm(self):
+        vm = VpcVirtualMachine(
+            apiclient=self.apiclient,
+            account=self.account.name,
+            domainid=self.account.domainid,
+            zoneid=self.zoneid,
+            templateid=self.templateid,
+            serviceofferingid=self.serviceofferingid
+        )
+        vm.destroy()
+        vm.state | should | equal_to('Destroyed')
+
+    @classmethod
+    def tearDownClass(cls):
+        cls.account.delete()
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