Both “delete” and “force-delete” did not work for me; they failed to remove the VM. Danny Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 21:17:30 +0530 From: foss geek <thefossgeek at gmail.com<mailto:thefossgeek at gmail.com>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [qa] How to delete a VM which is in ERROR state? Message-ID: <CADXhYnXTVaKcG58s2_YM5KoOzM6yuFK9URok7wxtceYA7OAixQ at mail.gmail.com<mailto:CADXhYnXTVaKcG58s2_YM5KoOzM6yuFK9URok7wxtceYA7OAixQ at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Also try with nova force-delete after reset: $ nova help force-delete usage: nova force-delete <server> Force delete a server. Positional arguments: <server> Name or ID of server. -- Thanks & Regards E-Mail: thefossgeek at gmail.com<mailto:thefossgeek at gmail.com> IRC: neophy Blog : http://lmohanphy.livejournal.com/ On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 9:10 PM, foss geek <thefossgeek at gmail.com<mailto:thefossgeek at gmail.com>> wrote: Have you tried to delete after reset? # nova reset-state --active <Name or ID of server> # nova delete <Name or ID of server> It works well for me if the VM state is error state. -- Thanks & Regards E-Mail: thefossgeek at gmail.com<mailto:thefossgeek at gmail.com> IRC: neophy Blog : http://lmohanphy.livejournal.com/ On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Danny Choi (dannchoi) <dannchoi at cisco.com<mailto:dannchoi at cisco.com>> wrote: That does not work. It put the VM in ACTIVE Status, but in NOSTATE Power State. Subsequent delete still won?t remove the VM. +--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+--------+------------+-------------+--------------------+ | ID | Name | Status | Task State | Power State | Networks | +--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+--------+------------+-------------+--------------------+ | 1cb5bf96-619c-4174-baae-dd0d8c3d40c5 | cirros--1cb5bf96-619c-4174-baae-dd0d8c3d40c5 | ACTIVE | - | NOSTATE | | Regards, Danny -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20141209/07474aa4/attachment.html>