Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-cloudstack-issues-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-cloudstack-issues-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7AD5187A5 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 21:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 92053 invoked by uid 500); 29 May 2015 21:47:17 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cloudstack-issues-archive@cloudstack.apache.org Received: (qmail 91983 invoked by uid 500); 29 May 2015 21:47:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact issues-help@cloudstack.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list issues@cloudstack.apache.org Received: (qmail 91750 invoked by uid 500); 29 May 2015 21:47:17 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-cloudstack-issues@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 91745 invoked by uid 99); 29 May 2015 21:47:17 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 29 May 2015 21:47:17 +0000 Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 21:47:17 +0000 (UTC) From: "Matty Courtney (JIRA)" To: cloudstack-issues@incubator.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Updated] (CLOUDSTACK-8354) [VMware] restoreVirtualMachine should forcefully power off VM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8354?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Matty Courtney updated CLOUDSTACK-8354: --------------------------------------- Affects Version/s: 4.5.1 > [VMware] restoreVirtualMachine should forcefully power off VM > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CLOUDSTACK-8354 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8354 > Project: CloudStack > Issue Type: Bug > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the default.) > Components: API, VMware > Affects Versions: 4.4.2, 4.5.1 > Reporter: Matty Courtney > Priority: Minor > Labels: vmware > > When restoreVirtualMachine API is called against a running instance CloudStack issues a command to vCenter to shutdown the guest OS, which shuts the OS down gracefully. > Sometimes this graceful shutdown can take several minutes if there are processes that prevent/delay the OS shutting down gracefully. > Presumably, when I call the restoreVirtualMachine API I don't care about the current state of the instance and nor do I care if it shuts down gracefully. > Could the restoreVirtualMachine instead tell vCenter to Power Off the VM, which results in the VM immediately changing to a stopped state? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)