How To Shut Down XenServer 7.0 Virtual Machine Which Is Unresponsive In Pending Or Amber State

How to shut down a virtual machine which is in a pending state or amber state or not respond to any requests in XenServer 7.0.

Steps :
1. Find the domain ID of the VM.
Run the following command to obtain the domain ID of a particular VM running on XenServer.

# xl list | grep -i “VM_NAME”

OR

# list_domains | grep -i VM_UUID

OR

To find the UUID of the VM , Click on the VM >> Click on General Tab >> Right click On UUID > copy the UUID to clipboard > Now you can paste the same while executing the command –

list_domains | grep -i UUID_Of_THE_VM

2. Open a Command Line Interface on the XenServer running the VM and run the following command:

#xl destroy DomainID

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