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qm reboot — Reboot a virtual machine by shutting it down, and starting it again after applying pending changes.

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

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Problem

How to use the qm reboot command: Reboot a virtual machine by shutting it down, and starting it again after applying pending changes. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_reboot>.

Solution

qm reboot — Reboot a virtual machine by shutting it down, and starting it again after applying pending changes. More information: <https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.1.html#cli_qm_reboot>.

Reboot a virtual machine:

qm {{[reb|reboot]}} {{vm_id}}

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

qm {{[reb|reboot]}} --timeout {{10}} {{vm_id}}

Code Snippets

Reboot a virtual machine

qm {{[reb|reboot]}} {{vm_id}}

Reboot a virtual machine after wait for at most 10 seconds

qm {{[reb|reboot]}} --timeout {{10}} {{vm_id}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/qm reboot

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