XenServer - Cannot Shut VM

Have you ever experienced  a situation where you could not shut one of your running XenServer running VM's?   In this brief article I'll present a workaround for this common problem...  From my personal experiences this problem is often caused when the domain of the specific VM is still active (this often happens as a result of inproper shutdown and/or storage cutoffs) - in such case the domain needs to be destroyed manually.  OK, so here's the problem - from the XenServer (v 5.6 SP1) dom0 CLI I'm trying to shut a VM (using the force option): #xe vm-reset-powerstate vm=xxxxxxx force=true
 However the output I get is:  The operation could not be performed because a domain still exists for the specified VM.
vm: f087dxxxxx (xxxxxx)
domid: 5  From the output we will need  two parameters :the domain id (5 in our case) and the UUID of the problematic VM , so write them down somewhere. Now we need to destroy the currently active domain, XenServer includes couple of good tools under /opt/xensource, the command that is relevant is:   #/opt/xensource/debug/destroy_domain -domid 5  Now, finally, we will be able shut the VM with:  #xe vm-reboot uuid=XXXX --force  And we're done.  Hope that helped some one out there. Cheers!