Proxmox Command-Line Snippets

The following table provides a handy list of Proxmox commands.

Description	Command
List all virtual machines hosted in a Proxmox node.	`for vm in $(sudo qm list \| awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'); do echo "$vm"; done`
Show detailed status for a specific VM.	`qm status <VMID>`
Display the full configuration of a VM.	`qm config <VMID>`
Start a virtual machine.	`qm start <VMID>`
Stop a virtual machine (graceful shutdown).	`qm shutdown <VMID>`
Force-stop a VM (equivalent to pulling the power).	`qm stop <VMID>`
Migrate a VM to another node (online/live migration).	`qm migrate <VMID> <target-node> --online`
Show node resource usage (CPU, RAM, storage).	`pvesh get /nodes/$(hostname)/status`
List all storage backends available on the node.	`pvesm status`
List all nodes in the Proxmox cluster.	`pvecm nodes`
Display cluster quorum and corosync status.	`pvecm status`