podman-machine-restart(1)

💅 podman-machine-restart(1) — General Commands Manual, bestie

okay so you found the podman-machine-restart page, and honestly? it's giving "short but mighty." this is the manual page for it, from the General Commands Manual section, and we're gonna walk through the whole thing together. no notes. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

podman-machine-restart — Restart a virtual machine 🙌

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podman machine restart [options] [name]

literally that's it. [options] and an optional [name] and you're off. 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what does it do? It restarts a virtual machine for Podman. That's the whole vibe. 🔥

The default machine name is podman-machine-default. So if you don't pass a machine name as an argument, guess what gets restarted — yep, podman-machine-default. it's the main character by default, iykyk. 👑

Now here's the part that's lowkey iconic: stopping an already stopped virtual machine is not considered an error. So running restart on a stopped virtual machine just starts it from a stopped state. no drama, no error message, it just works. we love a forgiving command. 🫶

For real though, podman machine restart stops and then starts a Linux virtual machine where containers are run. that's the actual mechanics of it — stop, then start. 💫

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — Print usage statement. your classic "what do I do again" button 🧚
• --no-info — Suppress informational tips. if you don't want the little extra hints, this is your girl 🙈
• --quiet, -q — Suppress machine restarting status output. silent mode, no chatter, just vibes 💀

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🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Restart a podman machine named myvm. look at her go:

$ podman machine restart myvm

periodt. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, go say hi:

podman(1), podman-machine(1), podman-machine-start(1), podman-machine-stop(1)

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💜 HISTORY 💜

May 2026, Originally compiled by Jait Jacob jai8.jacob@gmail.com ⟨mailto:jai8.jacob@gmail.com⟩

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and that's the page, bestie! 🍓 this one's podman-machine-restart(1) from the General Commands Manual — huge shoutout to May 2026 and Jait Jacob for compiling it, you ate that. go restart a machine, you got this 💖✨