[ovirt-users] Force-Shutdown a VM?

[Alexander Wels]

On Thursday, May 4, 2017 11:47:48 AM EDT Derek Atkins wrote:
> Okay, I'll bite.  Which button is that?
> 
> I'm in the Virtual Machines tab on the admin portal; I select the hung VM
> from my list and I see the following items at the top of the page:
> "New VM", "Import", "Edit", "Remove", "Clone VM", "Run Once", "<Run>",
> "<Suspend>", "<Shutdown>", "<Reboot>", "<Console>", "Migrate", "Cancel
> Migration", "Cancel Conversion", and then the right arrow to "Make
> Template", "Export", "Create Snapshot", "Change CD", "Assign Tags", and
> "Guide Me".
> 
> Please, kind sir, which one is the "power off" instead of "shutdown"?
> 
> -derek
> 

He was not making a joke, there should be a 'power off' button between the 
shutdown and reboot button. If it is not there, that is a problem. Is it also 
not there when you right click on the grid in the menu that pops up?

> On Thu, May 4, 2017 11:38 am, Dan Yasny wrote:
> > Have you tried "power off" instead of "shutdown"?
> > 
> > On May 4, 2017 11:36 AM, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I'm running ovirt-4.0.6 on EL7.3.
> >> 
> >> I've got a stuck VM (Windows 10) that I'm trying to restart.
> >> Unfortunately it's "up" enough that ovirt is trying to perform a
> >> soft-shutdown, but it's not up enough to complete the task.  If I login
> >> to the ovirt admin portal as the admin, select shutdown, I see the
> >> following engine log messages before I get an event "Shutdown of VM
> >> <vm-name> failed.":
> >> 
> >> 2017-05-04 11:23:27,774 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.
> >> dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
> >> (org.ovirt.thread.pool-6-thread-14)
> >> [3f629ae6] Correlation ID: 3f629ae6, Job ID:
> >> 1f5275cd-d2fe-44d5-a1cf-d1920e3f3378,
> >> Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: VM shutdown initiated by
> >> admin at internal-authz on VM win10-64 (Host: ovirt-0).
> >> 2017-05-04 11:28:38,237 INFO
> >> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.monitoring.VmAnalyzer]
> >> (DefaultQuartzScheduler10) [4cf2f258] VM
> >> 'c9830039-9bf9-4c6a-8eae-da9c24aad899'(win10-64)
> >> moved from 'PoweringDown' --> 'Up'
> >> 2017-05-04 11:28:38,287 WARN  [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.
> >> dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] (DefaultQuartzScheduler10)
> >> [4cf2f258] Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1,
> >> Message: Shutdown of VM win10-64 failed.
> >> 
> >> So, how can I get out of this situation?  How can I force-powerdown this
> >> VM so I can reboot it?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> -derek
> >> 
> >> --
> >> 
> >>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
> >>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
> >>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
> >> 
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