Xenserver – VM is not working anymore and can neither be rebooted nor shut down

The following instructions make it possible to reboot and immediately afterwards shut down a non working virtual machine on a Xenserver.

Commands to reboot a virtual machine on a Xenserver

xe vm-list –> Reading of the UUID of the non-working VM

list_domains –> Extracting the ID of the non-working VM from the column ID with help of the UUID

./opt/xensource/debug/destroy_domain -domid ID –> ID taken from list_domains

xe vm-reboot uuid=XXX force=true  XXX = UUID der VM

xe vm-shutdown uuid=XXX force=true

Backup XenServer virtual machines

Of course it might be usefull to backup thevirtual machines. Citrix has a manual about how to back a XenServer VM