restart

The multipass restart command without any argument will restart the Primary instance (and fail, if it doesn’t exist). You can also pass one or more instance names or the --all option to restart more instances at the same time.

Use the --running-only option to limit the restart operation to the running subset of the input instances.

Note

Only instances in Running, Stopped or Suspended status can be restarted. Stopped instances are simply started, while Suspended instances are resumed first and then are restarted as Running instances.

For example:

multipass restart desirable-earwig

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The full multipass help restart output explains the available options:

Usage: multipass restart [options] [<name> ...]
Restart the named instances. If the instance is running, it will be rebooted.
If the instance is suspended, it will be started and then rebooted. If the
instance is stopped, it will be started. Exits with return code 0 when the
instances restart, or with an error code if any fail to restart.

Options:
  -h, --help           Displays help on commandline options
  -v, --verbose        Increase logging verbosity. Repeat the 'v' in the short
                       option for more detail. Maximum verbosity is obtained
                       with 4 (or more) v's, i.e. -vvvv.
  --all                Restart all instances
  --running-only       Avoid restarting non-running instances.
  --timeout <timeout>  Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for the command to
                       complete. Note that some background operations may
                       continue beyond that. By default, instance startup and
                       initialization is limited to 5 minutes each.

Arguments:
  name                 Names of instances to restart. If omitted, and without
                       the --all option, 'primary' will be assumed.