Hung VM, unable to force reboot/shutdown

I have been working with a few vendor provided VM’s which run Linux. For some reason this specific set of Linux VMs do not properly respond when issuing reboot or shutdown commands when they VMs are hung. This is even true of force-shutdown. The following process works great for virtual servers that are non-responsive in a XenServer environment, after normal reboot/shutdown attempts have failed.

  1. “xe vm-list name-label={vm logical name}” to get the uuid of the VM that is hung
  2. “list_domains” to list the domain uuid’s so you can determine the domain # of the VM above by matching the uuids from this output with the uuid for your VM from the previous command.
  3. “/opt/xensource/debug/destroy_domain -domid XX” where XX is the domain number from the previous command
  4. “xe vm-reboot name-label={vm logical name} –force”

Enjoy

 

Based in part on information from: http://www.r2dtop.com/xenserver-6-virtual-machine-crash-and-hang-issue/