hpvmstop: ERROR (vm): Unable to stop guest

[merieux]

Hi ,

I experience some problem with an hpvm guest. hpvmstop does not stop
[root@- /root ] # hpvmstop -P vm
hpvmstop: Stop the virtual machine 'vm'? [n/y]: y
hpvmstop: WARNING (vm): Polite guest stop didn't work - trying harder: vm
hpvmstop: WARNING (vm): Impolite guest stop didn't work - trying SIGKILL: vm
hpvmstop: ERROR (vm): Unable to stop guest 'vm', even with SIGKILL.
hpvmstop: Unable to continue.

It doest not work even if -g and -F have been given .

hpvmconsole hang and does not reply.
hpvmstart reply that the "The guest is already running."

hpvmstatus -P vm take a while and i have the following error message :

disk scsi 0 0 0 0 0 hpvmstatus: Guest not responsive; dynamic device information unavailable.

What is the meaning of "dynamic device information unavailable"

All ideas are welcome

Regards ,
xavier

[Rita C Workman]

Is it possible that this vm guest has lost it's disk? Maybe even it's O/S on that disk?

To force it down...take down other vmguests and the reboot the vmhost. That will free things up. But if it won't come down easy - it is likely not going to come back up either. I'm "thinking" you may need to rebuild this guest.


Just a thought...
Rita

[Tim Nelson]

Rita is probably spot on.. VMs OS disk was yanked away.

Can you hpvmconsole -P vm and cm>pc>off

then fix the issue and reboot the VM.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

post or try:

hpvmstatus -P guest_name

hpvmconsole -P guest_name
# see whats up with this puppy.

SEP

[melvyn burnard]

one other option to try is to see what the PID is of that VM process on your VM Host, then try kill -9 on it