Rebooting a stuck VM on XenServer

Sometimes a VM on XenServer gets stuck. Trying to reboot it from XenCenter results in the error message “Another operation involving the object is currently in progress“. There are some steps that can be taken to reboot the VM from the command line on the XenServer host itself.

We start with the UUID of the stuck VM, replacing the text NameOfYourVM with the actual name of your VM:

xe vm-list | grep -B 1 NameOfYourVM

Copy the UUID, and paste it in the following command:

list_domains | grep UUIDOfYourVM

This will result in the domain identifier of your VM, which we use in the following command:

/opt/xensource/debug/destroy_domain -domid DomainIdOfYourVM

The final step involves rebooting the VM in a forceful way:

xe vm-reboot uuid=UUIDOfYourVM --force