setting to trigger VM power cycle when guest OS reboots?

Jul 28, 2025
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Hi
we're currently in the progress of moving from vmware to Proxmox. We mostly host VMs for other teams that are responsible for server and application.

On vmware there was a handy setting "vmx.reboot.powercycle" that I could set after doing changes, which enabled the hypervisor to recognize a guest OS reboot (via vmware tools agent) and do the powercycle on the VM process. So the responsible teams (without access to the hypervisor) could decide, when they reboot their server and activate the new settings/hardware/etc.

Does anyone know if there's a similar setting/command on Proxmox VE using qemu guest tools?

add. Info:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/edjk4o/power_cycle_on_reboot_advanced_setting_finally/
https://williamlam.com/2022/09/power-off-vm-from-guest-os-reboot-capability-in-vsphere-8.html
 
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