Virsh destroy

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Ungraceful shutdown but do not destroy data or VM but you can corrupt guest file systems, --graceful flag attempts to flush the cache for the disk image file before powering off the virtual machine.

virsh destroy --graceful VM_MACHINE_NAME 
virsh destroy VM_MACHINE_NAME
Domain infrastructure destroyed
  • Error while destroying VM_MACHINE:
virsh destroy VM_MACHINE_NAME
error: Failed to destroy domain VM_MACHINE_NAME
error: Timed out during operation: cannot acquire state change lock (held by remoteDispatchDomainBlockJobAbort)

virsh destroy VM_MACHINE_NAME-3
error: Disconnected from qemu:///system due to keepalive timeout
error: Failed to destroy domain VM_MACHINE_NAME-3
error: internal error: connection closed due to keepalive timeout



  • Logs: /var/log/libvirt/qemu
VM_MACHINE.log:2019-04-18 07:53:30.584+0000: shutting down, reason=shutdown
VM_MACHINE.log:2018-11-20 07:58:56.193+0000: shutting down, reason=crashed
VM_MACHINE.log:2018-11-20 08:00:38.835+0000: shutting down, reason=destroyed

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