diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/3034-promox-kvm-return-new-id.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/3034-promox-kvm-return-new-id.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8cbd769a04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/3034-promox-kvm-return-new-id.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - proxmox_kvm - fix result of clone, now returns ``newid`` instead of ``vmid`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/3034).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_kvm.py b/plugins/modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_kvm.py
index 939c72a126..159968ce6e 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_kvm.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cloud/misc/proxmox_kvm.py
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ def main():
             if update:
                 module.exit_json(changed=True, vmid=vmid, msg="VM %s with vmid %s updated" % (name, vmid))
             elif clone is not None:
-                module.exit_json(changed=True, vmid=vmid, msg="VM %s with newid %s cloned from vm with vmid %s" % (name, newid, vmid))
+                module.exit_json(changed=True, vmid=newid, msg="VM %s with newid %s cloned from vm with vmid %s" % (name, newid, vmid))
             else:
                 module.exit_json(changed=True, msg="VM %s with vmid %s deployed" % (name, vmid), **results)
         except Exception as e: