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# Delete virtual machine

> DeleteVirtualMachine deletes one VirtualMachine by name (Foreground propagation). An "edit" of the immutable spec is modelled as delete+create.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/compute-public.v1.openapi.json delete /compute/v1/virtualmachines/{name}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Mount Thor Compute — friendly public compute API
  description: >-
    ComputeService is the friendly public compute API: lifecycle (create / get /
    list / delete / power) for VirtualMachines and BareMetalMachines expressed
    in high-level terms, plus the catalog/discovery surface that supplies the
    valid images and machine classes a caller may pick from. There is
    deliberately no Update RPC: the CR spec is whole-spec CEL-immutable, so an
    "edit" is delete + recreate.
  version: 0.1.0
servers: []
security: []
tags:
  - name: ComputeService
paths:
  /compute/v1/virtualmachines/{name}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - ComputeService
      summary: Delete virtual machine
      description: >-
        DeleteVirtualMachine deletes one VirtualMachine by name (Foreground
        propagation). An "edit" of the immutable spec is modelled as
        delete+create.
      operationId: ComputeService_DeleteVirtualMachine
      parameters:
        - name: name
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteVirtualMachineResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    DeleteVirtualMachineResponse:
      type: object
      properties: {}

````