14.9.5. Forcing a Guest Virtual Machine to Stop
Force a guest virtual machine to stop with the
virsh destroy
command:
# virsh destroy{domain-id, domain-name or domain-uuid}
[--graceful]
This command does an immediate ungraceful shutdown and stops the specified guest virtual machine. Using
virsh destroy
can corrupt guest virtual machine file systems. Use the destroy
option only when the guest virtual machine is unresponsive. If you want to initiate a graceful shutdown, use the virsh destroy --graceful
command.