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qm start — Start a virtual machine on QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.

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Problem

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

Solution

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

Start a specific virtual machine:

qm start {{100}}

Specify the QEMU machine type (i.e. the CPU to emulate):

qm start {{100}} --machine {{q35}}

Start a specific virtual machine with a timeout in 60 seconds:

qm start {{100}} --timeout {{60}}

Code Snippets

Start a specific virtual machine

qm start {{100}}

Specify the QEMU machine type (i.e. the CPU to emulate)

qm start {{100}} --machine {{q35}}

Start a specific virtual machine with a timeout in 60 seconds

qm start {{100}} --timeout {{60}}

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