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qm sendkey — Send QEMU monitor encoding key event to a virtual machine. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.co

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Problem

How to use the qm sendkey command: Send QEMU monitor encoding key event to a virtual machine. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_sendkey>.

Solution

qm sendkey — Send QEMU monitor encoding key event to a virtual machine. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_sendkey>.

Send the specified key event to a specific virtual machine:

qm {{[sen|sendkey]}} {{vm_id}} {{key}}

Allow root user to send key event and ignore locks:

qm {{[sen|sendkey]}} --skiplock {{true}} {{vm_id}} {{key}}

Code Snippets

Send the specified key event to a specific virtual machine

qm {{[sen|sendkey]}} {{vm_id}} {{key}}

Allow root user to send key event and ignore locks

qm {{[sen|sendkey]}} --skiplock {{true}} {{vm_id}} {{key}}

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