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qm shutdown — Shutdown a virtual machine on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager. More information: <https://pve.proxm

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Problem

How to use the qm shutdown command: Shutdown a virtual machine on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_shutdown>.

Solution

qm shutdown — Shutdown a virtual machine on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_shutdown>.

Shutdown a virtual machine:

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} {{VM_ID}}

Shutdown a virtual machine after wait for at most 10 seconds:

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --timeout {{10}} {{VM_ID}}

Shutdown a virtual machine and do not deactivate storage volumes:

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --keepActive {{true}} {{VM_ID}}

Shutdown a virtual machine and skip lock (only root can use this option):

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --skiplock {{true}} {{VM_ID}}

Stop and shutdown a virtual machine:

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --forceStop {{true}} {{VM_ID}}

Code Snippets

Shutdown a virtual machine

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} {{VM_ID}}

Shutdown a virtual machine after wait for at most 10 seconds

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --timeout {{10}} {{VM_ID}}

Shutdown a virtual machine and do not deactivate storage volumes

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --keepActive {{true}} {{VM_ID}}

Shutdown a virtual machine and skip lock (only root can use this option)

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --skiplock {{true}} {{VM_ID}}

Stop and shutdown a virtual machine

qm {{[shu|shutdown]}} --forceStop {{true}} {{VM_ID}}

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