Force an immediate power-off and restart of a virtual machine, without a graceful shutdown.

When to use

Use this only when a soft reboot (POST /api/v1/vms/{id}/reboot) does not work — for example, the VM is hung and not responding to OS-level signals.

Risks

• Unsaved data may be lost. Filesystems and applications cannot flush state before power-off.
• Filesystem corruption is possible. Hard power-off skips clean unmount.

Prefer the standard reboot whenever the VM is responsive.

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