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.
I have used OliveTin to do something similar: https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin
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.
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.
Debain and VirtualBox
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.
Not quite, I want to restart a VM using a container.
Hmmmm…I’m fresh out of ideas except maybe Ansible or Terraform automation but that’s outside my wheelhouse.
I use Portainer.
you can restart VMs from portainer?
What is your home server running and what kind of VM is it?
Debian and VirtualBox
I Tailscale in to my home network, and then from one of the machines I’m the network, I can ssh in (or whatever.)
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
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.



