Hi Chandrashekhar, If you are looking to totally wipe out a domain (virtual machine) from your host you are looking for the undefined which is the opposite of defining a domain. The destroy command is like a hard power off of the domain. [root@bv13-07 ~]# virsh help undefine NAME undefine - undefine a domain SYNOPSIS undefine <domain> [--managed-save] [<storage>] [--remove-all-storage] [--wipe-storage] [--snapshots-metadata] DESCRIPTION Undefine an inactive domain, or convert persistent to transient. From: libvirt-users-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chandrashekhar Jamadarkhani (cjamadar) Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:02 PM To: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com Subject: [libvirt-users] VM destroy faiing in 1.0.1 Hi, Virsh destroy is always failing with below error. [host:~]$ virsh destroy XYZ--2 error: Failed to destroy domain XYZ--2 error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running [host:~]$ virsh list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- - XYZ--2 shut off [host:~]$ host:~]$ libvirtd --version libvirtd (libvirt) 1.0.1 [host:~]$ host:~]$ virsh version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.0.1 Using library: libvirt 1.0.1 Using API: QEMU 1.0.1 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.13.0 [host:~]$ same VM was working with older libvirt vrsion: [host:~]$ virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.7 Using library: libvir 0.8.7 Using API: QEMU 0.8.7 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.13.0 [host:~]$ when we upgrade to latest libvirt version:1.0.1, VM destroy is failing. Appreciate your help on this. Thanks, Chandrashekhar

Hi Eric, Thanks Eric for looking in to this. I'm not saying vm_destroy is broken. I'm handling the failure of vm_destroy. For the same VM, vm destroy is going through in the older libvirt version(0.8.7) and why it is always failing in the latest version of libvirt ? anything wrong in my environment ? host:~]$ virsh version Compiled against library: libvir 0.8.7 Using library: libvir 0.8.7 Using API: QEMU 0.8.7 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.13.0 [host:~]$ Thanks, CJ -----Original Message----- From: Eric Blake [mailto:eblake@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:34 PM To: Chandrashekhar Jamadarkhani (cjamadar) Cc: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] VM destroy faiing in 1.0.1 On 07/02/2013 11:02 PM, Chandrashekhar Jamadarkhani (cjamadar) wrote: You must ALWAYS be prepared for commands to fail because the guest has changed states on its own. Any guest can turn itself off before your destroy request; this does not mean that destroy is broken. Latest libvirt is 1.1.0, not 1.0.1. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org