diff --git a/cloudcontrol/cli/commands/vm.py b/cloudcontrol/cli/commands/vm.py
index f42dff0842e5bc2ab83b3eedde52a53a27e51786..8beda7e1c32f9d8065903cb1eb5ecc448d344d20 100644
--- a/cloudcontrol/cli/commands/vm.py
+++ b/cloudcontrol/cli/commands/vm.py
@@ -120,6 +120,25 @@ class Command_resume(TqlCommand):
     def remote_functions(self):
         return set(("resume",))
 
+class Command_reset(TqlCommand):
+    '''Reset a running vm'''
+
+    def __init__(self, cli, argv0):
+        TqlCommand.__init__(self, cli, argv0)
+        self.tql_filter += "&r=vm&status=running"
+
+    def __call__(self, argv):
+        # arg parse
+        self.parse_args(argv)
+        if len(self.args) != 1:
+            raise cmdBadArgument()
+        # rpc call
+        self.rpccall("reset", self.args[0])
+
+    def remote_functions(self):
+        return set(("reset",))
+
+
 class Command_disablevirtiocache(TqlCommand):
     '''Set virtio cache to none on VMs disk devices'''