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On 7/25/2019 11:04 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> I found out when it was taking 30 min to delete a guest. So, what I can 
> do in a forceful way?
> 
> 1. How to kill the guest? Can I kill it through virsh or openstack 
> compute service will get sad?

I would try to avoid this if possible, but you might need to kill the 
guest in the hypervisor if doing it through nova won't get the job done. 
What happens in nova-compute is undefined, but you'd probably see some 
errors as expected if you're doing anything with that server at the 
hypervisor layer, like trying to get the guest power state.

What nova is tracking and what is in the hypervisor are different 
things, and if you delete the guest out of band from nova, you'll need 
to delete the server to sync the nova database. If the delete is stuck 
in the compute API, thinking it's already deleting (I think we have an 
old bug for that and force delete, and I hit something similar today), 
you could try resetting the server status to ERROR [1] and then try 
deleting it in the API again.

> 2. What would happen if I stop the compute service?

This won't really do anything to the guest in the hypervisor unless [2] 
tries to change the guest state on restart. In my experience that option 
has not been very reliable / predictable.

> 3. What would happen if I get really annoyed and tell worker node to reboot?

Pretty much the same as #2 from a nova perspective I think. Depending on 
how libvirt and/or the guest domain is configured, the libvirt-guest 
service might try to resume the guest.

[1] openstack server set --state error <server>
[2] 
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#DEFAULT.resume_guests_state_on_host_boot

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Thanks,

Matt