---
description: Restart a machine
keywords:
- machine, restart, subcommand
menu:
  main:
    identifier: machine.restart
    parent: smn_machine_subcmds
title: restart
---

# restart

```none
Usage: docker-machine restart [arg...]

Restart a machine

Description:
   Argument(s) are one or more machine names.
```

Restart a machine. Oftentimes this is equivalent to
`docker-machine stop; docker-machine start`. But some cloud driver try to implement a clever restart which keeps the same
ip address.

```
$ docker-machine restart dev
Waiting for VM to start...
```