qm-suspend

Suspend a virtual machine by ID

$ qm suspend 100

$ qm suspend 100 --skiplock

$ qm suspend 100 --skiplockstorage

qm suspend vmid [options]

qm suspend suspends a running virtual machine in Proxmox VE. The VM's state is preserved in memory, allowing it to be resumed later with qm resume.
Suspension pauses VM execution without shutting down the guest OS.

--skiplock

Skip the lock check when suspending

Skip the storage lock check when suspending

Use --skiplock and --skiplockstorage with caution as they may lead to data corruption in certain situations. Suspended VMs still consume memory resources.

Part of Proxmox VE QEMU/KVM management tools for virtual machine administration.

qm(1), qm-resume(1), qm-shutdown(1)