Starts a virtual machine (VM) process.
| vm | Designates starting a vm process. |
| vm_name | Specifies the VM name. |
N/A.
The effect of this command is not persistent. The initial VM state after boot is determined by the VM‘s enabled/disabled configuration state.
To stop a VM process, use the command stop vm vm_name [forceful | graceful].
The Extreme Insight feature requires the Solid State Storage Device SSD-120.
The following example starts the VM process "vm1":
# start vm vm1
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 30.3.
This command is available on all platforms that support the Extreme Insight for Guest VMs feature and have a Core license installed. For a list of platforms that support the Insight feature and for information about licenses, see the ExtremeXOS and Switch Engine 31.7 Feature License Requirements .