podman-machine-restart - Man Page

podman machine restart [options] [name]

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.

Restart a podman machine named myvm.

$ podman machine restart myvm

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

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

podman-machine(1).

The man page docker-machine-restart(1) is an alias of podman-machine-restart(1).