podman-machine-restart(1) General Commands Manual podman-machine-restart(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-machine-restart - Restart a virtual machine

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**podman machine restart** \[*options*] \[*name*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Restarts a virtual machine for Podman.

The default machine name is **podman-machine-default**. If a machine name is not specified as an argument, then **podman-machine-default** will be restarted.

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.

**podman machine restart** stops and then starts a Linux virtual machine where containers are run.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

## **--help**

Print usage statement.

## **--no-info**

Suppress informational tips.

## **--quiet**, **-q**

Suppress machine restarting status output.

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

Restart a podman machine named myvm.

```
$ podman machine restart myvm
```

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.1/podman.1), [**podman-machine(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.1/podman-machine.1), [**podman-machine-start(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.1/podman-machine-start.1), [**podman-machine-stop(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.1/podman-machine-stop.1)

# [HISTORY](#HISTORY)

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

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Document: podman-machine-restart(1) from podman-doc-6.1 6.1.3-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman