diff --git a/plugins/modules/proxmox.py b/plugins/modules/proxmox.py
index 0e21ca5df38..bed081ae68a 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/proxmox.py
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@
   state:
     description:
      - Indicate desired state of the instance
+     - V(template) was added in community.general 8.0.0.
     type: str
     choices: ['present', 'started', 'absent', 'stopped', 'restarted', 'template']
     default: present
@@ -427,7 +428,7 @@
     api_host: node1
     state: template
 
-- name: Convert container to template(stop container if running)
+- name: Convert container to template (stop container if running)
   community.general.proxmox:
     vmid: 100
     api_user: root@pam
@@ -819,8 +820,8 @@ def main():
         try:
             vm = proxmox.get_vm(vmid)
 
-            if proxmox.convert_to_template(vm, vmid, timeout, force=module.params['force']):
-                module.exit_json(changed=True, msg="VM %s is converted to template" % vmid)
+            proxmox.convert_to_template(vm, vmid, timeout, force=module.params['force'])
+            module.exit_json(changed=True, msg="VM %s is converted to template" % vmid)
         except Exception as e:
             module.fail_json(msg="conversion of VM %s to template failed with exception: %s" % (vmid, e))
 
diff --git a/plugins/modules/proxmox_kvm.py b/plugins/modules/proxmox_kvm.py
index 08f0577ad9b..3ad6c6ae07b 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/proxmox_kvm.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/proxmox_kvm.py
@@ -453,8 +453,9 @@
     description:
       - Indicates desired state of the instance.
       - If V(current), the current state of the VM will be fetched. You can access it with C(results.status)
+      - V(template) was added in community.general 8.0.0.
     type: str
-    choices: ['present', 'started', 'absent', 'stopped', 'restarted', 'current']
+    choices: ['present', 'started', 'absent', 'stopped', 'restarted', 'current', 'template']
     default: present
   storage:
     description:
@@ -1524,8 +1525,8 @@ def main():
             if vm['status'] == 'stopped':
                 module.exit_json(changed=False, vmid=vmid, msg="VM %s is already stopped" % vmid, **status)
 
-            if proxmox.stop_vm(vm, force=module.params['force'], timeout=module.params['timeout']):
-                module.exit_json(changed=True, vmid=vmid, msg="VM %s is shutting down" % vmid, **status)
+            proxmox.stop_vm(vm, force=module.params['force'], timeout=module.params['timeout'])
+            module.exit_json(changed=True, vmid=vmid, msg="VM %s is shutting down" % vmid, **status)
         except Exception as e:
             module.fail_json(vmid=vmid, msg="stopping of VM %s failed with exception: %s" % (vmid, e), **status)