> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ornn.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reboot a VM

> Restarts one running VM in place. Its disk, GPUs, SSH port, and network are kept, and other VMs on the node are not affected. mode reboot (the default) asks the VM's operating system to restart and resets the VM if it has not come back within about 90 seconds. mode reset power-cycles the VM at once; anything not yet written to its disk is lost. Any member of the reservation's organization can reboot. A 202 response is acceptance: the VM's operation becomes reboot. Poll the reservation's VM list until operation_status is succeeded or failed. A failed reboot leaves the VM running with failure set; you can reboot again.

Reboot keeps the VM's disk. To start from a clean disk instead, [reimage the VM](/api-reference/virtual-machines/reimage). For the full flow, see [Reboot a VM](/guides/vm-access#reboot-a-vm).


## OpenAPI

````yaml openapi.yaml POST /v1/orchestrator/nodes/{node_id}/virtual-machines/{vm_id}/reboot
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Ornn compute API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Customer HTTP API for Ornn GPU capacity. It covers reserved capacity and
    nodes, VM and Bare Metal access, Kubernetes and Slurm clusters, SSH keys,
    storage volumes and GitHub repositories, private networks, monitoring,
    buying and selling capacity (Reserve, Market, Spot, and Relist), and
    billing. API keys are scoped to one organization and act with their
    creator's access there; account, team, and API-key management stay in the
    console. Most operations require an approved organization. See
    https://docs.ornn.com/api-keys to create a key and
    https://docs.ornn.com/guides/kubernetes-api for an end-to-end Kubernetes
    integration. Examples use fictional IDs and credentials. The info.version
    field identifies the contract revision, not a shared API path version.
  contact:
    email: support@ornn.com
servers:
  - url: https://api.ornn.com
    description: Production
security:
  - OrnnApiKey: []
tags:
  - name: Authentication
  - name: Reservations
  - name: GPU nodes
  - name: Clusters
  - name: Workers
  - name: Virtual machines
    description: >-
      Choose a VM disk, launch VM access on a reservation, and read each VM's
      status, launch progress, and SSH connection details.
  - name: Bare Metal
    description: >-
      Launch Bare Metal access on a reservation, read a host's readiness and SSH
      connection details, and reboot or hard reset it.
  - name: SSH keys
    description: >-
      Register public keys for your organization, choose which keys a VM or Bare
      Metal reservation uses, and queue key delivery to machines. Slurm clusters
      take organization key IDs at launch. Kubernetes API access does not use
      SSH keys.
  - name: Reserve
    description: >-
      Browse reserved-capacity listings and their terms, and post, cancel, or
      accept offers. Reserve listings are visible to approved organizations.
  - name: Market
    description: >-
      Browse relisted capacity and buy windows at the asking price, paid up
      front. Open to every member of your organization.
  - name: Spot
    description: >-
      Hourly order books for VMs with 1, 2, 4, or 8 GPUs on one node: read
      books, trades, and quotes, place and cancel bids, and follow fills.
  - name: Relist
    description: >-
      Sell whole nodes from a reservation you hold at your asking price, and
      manage those listings.
  - name: Storage
    description: >-
      Managed volumes, their files, and GitHub repository pulls. Volumes belong
      to the API key's creator in the key's organization.
  - name: Networks
    description: >-
      Organization private networks and the WireGuard configs you use to reach
      private machines and clusters.
  - name: Monitoring
    description: >-
      Machine telemetry and console logs for capacity your organization holds.
      Reads are limited to your reservation window.
  - name: Billing
    description: >-
      Invoices, billing summary, usage cost, Ornn credits, and account
      statements. Saving a card and paying invoices stay in the console.
externalDocs:
  description: REST integration walkthrough
  url: >-
    https://docs.ornn.com/guides/kubernetes-access#provision-and-manage-through-rest
paths:
  /v1/orchestrator/nodes/{node_id}/virtual-machines/{vm_id}/reboot:
    post:
      tags:
        - Virtual machines
      summary: Reboot a VM
      description: >-
        Restarts one running VM in place. Its disk, GPUs, SSH port, and network
        are kept, and other VMs on the node are not affected. mode reboot (the
        default) asks the VM's operating system to restart and resets the VM if
        it has not come back within about 90 seconds. mode reset power-cycles
        the VM at once; anything not yet written to its disk is lost. Any member
        of the reservation's organization can reboot. A 202 response is
        acceptance: the VM's operation becomes reboot. Poll the reservation's VM
        list until operation_status is succeeded or failed. A failed reboot
        leaves the VM running with failure set; you can reboot again.
      operationId: accessRebootVirtualMachine
      parameters:
        - name: node_id
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The VM's node_id from the reservation's VM list.
          schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
          example: 33333333-3333-4333-8333-333333333333
        - name: vm_id
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The VM's id from the reservation's VM list.
          schema:
            type: string
            format: uuid
          example: 66666666-6666-4666-8666-666666666666
      requestBody:
        required: false
        description: Omit the body for a plain reboot.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                mode:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - reboot
                    - reset
                  default: reboot
            example:
              mode: reboot
      responses:
        '202':
          description: Reboot accepted. The body is the VM with operation reboot.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessVirtualMachine'
              example:
                id: 66666666-6666-4666-8666-666666666666
                node_id: 33333333-3333-4333-8333-333333333333
                reservation_id: 11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111
                status: running
                operation: reboot
                operation_id: bbbbbbbb-bbbb-4bbb-8bbb-bbbbbbbbbbbb
                operation_status: queued
                operation_started_at: '2026-10-20T15:00:00Z'
                operation_completed_at: null
                stages: []
                failure: null
                ready_at: '2026-10-15T00:09:48Z'
                hostname: ornn-vm-11111111-0
                ip: 203.0.113.10
                tenant_username: tenant
                port: 2222
                gpu_count: 8
                disk_id: 77777777-7777-4777-8777-777777777777
                created_at: '2026-10-15T00:02:11Z'
                destroy_at: null
        '400':
          description: mode is not reboot or reset.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
              example:
                detail:
                  code: invalid_virtual_machine_reboot_mode
                  message: Choose reboot or reset.
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          description: >-
            The VM, its node, or its reservation is absent or not owned by your
            organization.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
              example:
                detail:
                  code: virtual_machine_not_found
                  message: Ornn could not find that virtual machine.
        '409':
          description: >-
            The VM is not running, a reboot, launch, or reimage is already in
            progress, it is a Kubernetes or Slurm worker, its node is offline,
            or the node needs a management update.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
              example:
                detail:
                  code: virtual_machine_busy
                  message: >-
                    This VM is already changing. Try again when its current
                    reboot, launch, or reimage finishes.
        default:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    AccessVirtualMachine:
      type: object
      required:
        - id
        - node_id
        - reservation_id
        - status
        - stages
        - gpu_count
        - created_at
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: >-
            VM id. Reboot a VM and reimage take this ID with its node_id. The
            host reboot and hard reset route takes a node ID, not this ID.
        node_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: The host node running the VM.
        reservation_id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        status:
          type: string
          description: >-
            provisioning, running, failed, or deleting. Treat any other value as
            not ready.
        operation:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: >-
            The latest operation, provision, destroy, or reboot. A VM stays
            running during a reboot.
        operation_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: uuid
        operation_status:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: queued, running, succeeded, or failed.
        operation_started_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
        operation_completed_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
        stages:
          type: array
          description: Customer launch progress for the latest provision, in order.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccessVirtualMachineStage'
        failure:
          description: >-
            Present when the VM or its latest operation failed. code is
            virtual_machine_provision_failed, virtual_machine_cleanup_failed, or
            virtual_machine_reboot_failed.
          oneOf:
            - type: 'null'
            - type: object
              required:
                - code
                - message
              properties:
                code:
                  type: string
                message:
                  type: string
        ready_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
          description: When the VM first became ready. Set only while running.
        hostname:
          type: string
          description: The VM's hostname. Not an SSH address.
        ip:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: SSH address. Present while provisioning or running.
        tenant_username:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: Linux login, tenant. Present only while running.
        port:
          type:
            - integer
            - 'null'
          description: SSH port. Present while provisioning or running. Do not assume 22.
        gpu_count:
          type: integer
        disk_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: uuid
        created_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        destroy_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        detail:
          oneOf:
            - type: string
            - type: object
              required:
                - code
                - message
              properties:
                code:
                  type: string
                message:
                  type: string
    AccessVirtualMachineStage:
      type: object
      required:
        - key
        - label
        - status
      properties:
        key:
          type: string
          description: >-
            One of prepare_host, prepare_gpu, prepare_disk, start_vm,
            verify_readiness, configure_storage, or configure_access. Stages
            that have not started are omitted.
        label:
          type: string
          description: Display label, such as Starting virtual machine.
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
            - pending
            - running
            - completed
            - failed
        started_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
        completed_at:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: >-
        The credential is missing, invalid, revoked, or no longer belongs to a
        current organization member. Check the HTTP status before parsing the
        body.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Error:
      description: >-
        Unsuccessful request. Check HTTP status first. Errors may have
        detail.code/detail.message, a string detail and optional top-level code,
        or an empty/non-JSON body. 401: invalid credential; 403: access or
        approval required; 404: not visible or credentials not ready; 409:
        lifecycle conflict; 429: back off; 5xx: service failure. Inspect current
        state before retrying mutations.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    OrnnApiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: ornn_sk_...
      description: >-
        Create an organization API key in Account Settings > Developer. Do not
        send this key to the Kubernetes API server.

````

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