[ovirt-users] Unable to shutdown, poweroff or delete a VM

[Jiri Belka]

> From: "Mark Steele" <msteele at telvue.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 1:30:11 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Unable to shutdown, poweroff or delete a VM
> 
> We are running oVirt Version 3.5.0.1-1.el6.
> 
> I have a VM on one of my hosts that appears to be stuck. The VM shows
> running, however I am unable to successfully shutdown, powerdown, or
> otherwise change the status of the VM.
> 
> It is not pinging. The guest OS is Ubuntu 14.04 and the ovirt agent is
> installed.
> 
> I have attempted to stop the vm from the ovirt-shell as well and get the
> following errors for each command:
> 
> 
> 
> [oVirt shell ( connected )]# action vm connect-turbo-stage-03 stop
> 
> ============================================================== ERROR
> ===========================================================
> 
> 
> status: 400
> 
> reason: Bad Request
> 
> detail: Unexpected exception
> 
> ================================================================================================================================
> 
> 
> [oVirt shell ( connected )]# remove vm connect-turbo-stage-03
> 
> ============================================================== ERROR
> ===========================================================
> 
> status: 409
> 
> reason: Conflict
> 
> detail: Cannot remove VM. VM is running.
> 
> ================================================================================================================================
> 
> 
> [oVirt shell ( connected )]# action vm connect-turbo-stage-03 detach
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ============================================================== ERROR
> ===========================================================
> 
> status: 400
> 
> reason: Bad Request
> 
> detail: User is not authorized to perform this action.
> 
> ================================================================================================================================

Check engine.log and if relevant submit a BZ.

j.