I run Home Assistant in a virtual machine on my home server. Sometimes I need to restart it and I'm not always in a position to SSH or VNC in and I can never remember the command so I have to look it up every time. Is there anything out there that would allow me to do this quickly?
EDIT: The VM is in virtualbox.
21 Comments
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 178d
I use Portainer.
flork@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 178d
you can restart VMs from portainer?
candyman337@piefed.ca · -4 pts · 178d
Yes, It's what's called a hypervisor, it is an operating system designed to manage vms, it can do a lot
Edit: I'm thinking of proxmox oops
Portainer is for docker containers
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 178d
Since when is portainer a hypervisor? It’s a container manager, isn’t it?
GentleWay@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 178d
I have used OliveTin to do something similar: https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin
flork@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 177d
OK now we're talking! Thanks.
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Forgot all about OliveTin.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 178d
If you can never remember the command, and that's the real issue, just put the command in a script and run the script. Name the script. Something easy like, home assistant restart.
flork@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 177d
Not looking for a workaround but thanks
Also launching a script from cell phone is kind of the same issue
frongt@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 178d
What platform has a browser but not an ssh client? I use juicessh on android. I'd bet even the Nintendo DS has a homebrew ssh client.
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 178d
We need some more info. What is the server? A dedicated hypervisor? Just a Linux box that Also runs a VM?. If so what software you use to run the VM and containers?
Like I use XCP-NG on one of my servers. It is a level 1 hypervisor which you can manage with a webui.
flork@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 178d
Debain and VirtualBox
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d
Are you asking if you can restart containers remotely, say from your phone? If so there are several apps that can do that. I use Yomo for docker and Portainer.
flork@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 178d
Not quite, I want to restart a VM using a container.
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
Hmmmm...I'm fresh out of ideas except maybe Ansible or Terraform automation but that's outside my wheelhouse.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d
What is your home server running and what kind of VM is it?
flork@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 178d
Debian and VirtualBox
phanto@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 178d
I Tailscale in to my home network, and then from one of the machines I'm the network, I can ssh in (or whatever.)
flork@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 178d
That's what I do now, just looking for something where I don't have to lookup the command and type it in with my phone
phanto@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 178d
Ahh, I see. Someone else mentioned portainer, that has a lot of "click to do bleh" functions. Might be what the doctor ordered. You could also put the command in a bash script, like restart.sh and then it'll show up with an ls.
SnachBarr@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 178d
Set an alias in shell for the complicated command, then just ssh and type the alias that is easier to remember.