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qm wait — Wait until the virtual machine is stopped. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.

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Problem

How to use the qm wait command: Wait until the virtual machine is stopped. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_wait>.

Solution

qm wait — Wait until the virtual machine is stopped. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_wait>.

Wait until the virtual machine is stopped:

qm {{[w|wait]}} {{vm_id}}

Wait until the virtual machine is stopped with a 10 second timeout:

qm {{[w|wait]}} --timeout {{10}} {{vm_id}}

Send a shutdown request, then wait until the virtual machine is stopped with a 10 second timeout:

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} {{vm_id}} && qm {{[w|wait]}} --timeout {{10}} {{vm_id}}

Code Snippets

Wait until the virtual machine is stopped

qm {{[w|wait]}} {{vm_id}}

Wait until the virtual machine is stopped with a 10 second timeout

qm {{[w|wait]}} --timeout {{10}} {{vm_id}}

Send a shutdown request, then wait until the virtual machine is stopped with a 10 second timeout

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} {{vm_id}} && qm {{[w|wait]}} --timeout {{10}} {{vm_id}}

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