Skip to content
Bots!
Bots!
  • About
    • Myself
    • আমার দোয়া
  • Bookmarks
    • Bookmarks
    • My OCI Bookmarks
    • Useful Proxmox Commands & Links
    • Learning Nano
    • Useful Sites
    • Useful Virtualbox Command
    • Useful MySQL Command
    • Useful Linux Command
    • BTT-CAS
  • Resources
    • Webinar on Cloud Adoption for Project Managers
  • Photos
  • Videos
  • Downloads
Bots!

Force Shutdown Xen VM

Rumi, February 27, 2021

Instructions

  1. Disable High Availability (HA) so you don’t run into issues
  2. Log into the Xenserver host that is running your VM with issues via ssh or console via XenCenter
  3. Run the following command to list VMs and their UUIDs
    xe vm-list resident-on=<uuid_of_host>
  4. First you can try just the normal shutdown command with force
    xe vm-shutdown uuid=<UUID from step 3> force=true
  5. If that just hangs, use CONTROL+C to kill it off and try to reset the power state.  The force is required on this command
    xe vm-reset-powerstate uuid=<UUID from step 3> force=true
  6. If the VM is still not shutdown, we may need to destroy the domain
  7. Run this command to get the domain id of the VM.  It is the number in the first row of output. The list will be the VMs on the host.  Dom0 will be the host itself and all numbers after are running VM
    list_domains
  8. Now run this command using the domain ID from the output of step 7
    xl destroy <DOMID from step 7>
Virtualization XCP-NG

Post navigation

Previous post
Next post

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Myself…

Hi, I am Hasan T. Emdad Rumi, an IT Project Manager & Consultant, Virtualization & Cloud Savvyfrom Dhaka, Bangladesh. I have prior experience in managing numerous local and international projects in the area of Telco VAS & NMC, National Data Center & PKI Naitonal Root and CA Infrastructure. Also engaged with several Offshore Software Development Team.

Worked with Orascom Telecom-Banglalink, Network Elites as VAS partner, BTRC, BTT (Turkey) , Mango Teleservices Limited and Access to Informaiton (A2I-UNDP)

Currently working at Oracle Corporation as Principal Technology Solution and Cloud Architect.

You can reach me [h.t.emdad at gmail.com] and I will be delighted to exchange my views.

Tags

Apache Bind Cacti CentOS CentOS 6 CentOS 7 Debain Debian Debian 10 Debian 11 Debian 12 DKIM Docker icinga iptables Jitsi LAMP Letsencrypt Linux Munin MySQL Nagios Nextcloud NFS nginx openvpn pfsense php Postfix Proxmox RDP Softether SSH SSL Ubuntu Ubuntu 16 Ubuntu 18 Ubuntu 20 Varnish virtualbox vpn Webmin Windows 10 XCP-NG zimbra

Topics

Recent Posts

  • CovermyAss February 27, 2026
  • KVM Cloud Capacity Planning Script (Enhanced) February 20, 2026
  • Youtube MP3 Downloader Script using AI February 14, 2026
  • Install Softether VPN and create a Destination NAT (D-NAT) Rule to access the private Client VPN Node on a Debian 12 OS February 14, 2026
  • Deploying Pulse Monitoring for Proxmox Cluster Ecosystem February 13, 2026
  • Technitium DNS Web UI Configuration for Primary-Secondary Name Servers February 12, 2026
  • Technitium DNS with Primary-Slave Installation on Debian February 12, 2026
  • Install Docker and Docker Compose in Debian 12 February 5, 2026
  • Install GUI on Debian 12 using CLI February 4, 2026
  • Configuring Multiple PHP Versions on Virtualmin January 30, 2026

Archives

Top Posts & Pages

  • CovermyAss
©2026 Bots! | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes