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qm cleanup — Clean up resources on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager like tap devices, VGPUs, etc. Called after a

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virtualresourcescommandcliqemukvmqm cleanupclean

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Problem

How to use the qm cleanup command: Clean up resources on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager like tap devices, VGPUs, etc. Called after a VM shuts down, crashes, etc. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_cleanup>.

Solution

qm cleanup — Clean up resources on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager like tap devices, VGPUs, etc. Called after a VM shuts down, crashes, etc. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_cleanup>.

Clean up resources:

qm {{[cl|cleanup]}} {{vm_id}} {{clean-shutdown}} {{guest-requested}}

Code Snippets

Clean up resources

qm {{[cl|cleanup]}} {{vm_id}} {{clean-shutdown}} {{guest-requested}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/qm cleanup

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