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 use Portainer.

I Tailscale in to my home network, and then from one of the machines I'm the network, I can ssh in (or whatever.)

What is your home server running and what kind of VM is it?

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.

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.

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.

you can restart VMs from portainer?

Debian and VirtualBox

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

Debain and VirtualBox

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.

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.

I have used OliveTin to do something similar: https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin

Set an alias in shell for the complicated command, then just ssh and type the alias that is easier to remember.

Forgot all about OliveTin.

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

Since when is portainer a hypervisor? It’s a container manager, isn’t it?

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.

Not looking for a workaround but thanks

Also launching a script from cell phone is kind of the same issue

OK now we're talking! Thanks.