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Kill a stuck vm in shuting down mode or pending mode

There are 3 options to do this, witch way depend on the stuck mode, start with options 1 and work you way thougt it onto the vm is shutdown.

Options 1:

SSH to the Xenserver witch running the vm

Type these commands:

xe task-list

Found the task and the UUID for this task, and kill it

xe task-cancel force=true uuid=<UUID>

 Options 2:

SSH to the Xenserver witch running the vm

xe vm-list

Find the vm han get the UUID

list_domains | grep <UUID>

Get the number in front of the UUID

/opt/xensource/debug/destroy_domain -domid <DOMID>

Options 3:

SSH to the Xenserver witch running the vm

xe-toolstack-restart