You can run this:
Destroy vmname
This is an equivalent to powering off the server.
Obviously, this may cause some issues with vm when you start it up again. . .
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On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:47 AM, "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am in the middle of a rather confusing situation. At
> the moment I am unable to shutdown a KVM guest machine.
> Nor am I presently able to open a virt-manager session on
> the host.
>
> I am not exactly sure what has happened but the problem
> with the vm guest is that issuing a "virsh shutdown 1"
> from the root console has no effect.
>
> # virsh list
> Id Name State
> --------------------------------------------
> 1 vmguest01.... running
>
> # virsh shutdown 1
> Doamin 1 is being shutdown
>
> wait 5 minutes
>
> # virsh list
> Id Name State
> --------------------------------------------
> 1 vmguest01.... running
>
> How do I get this stopped?
>
> I have another problem with virt-manager as well. But I
> will leave that for another message.
>
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