is there a way to stop a domain in 'D' process state (uninterruptible) ?

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 21 16:20:17 UTC 2021


On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 06:08:58PM +0200, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can i stop/shutdown a domain which is in process state 'D' ?
> 'D' means uninterruptible and a process in 'D' can't be terminated by kill, even not with kill -9.

Yeah, this is tricky. Usually this is a result of an I/O problem of
some kind and so the approach would be to diagnose what that root
cause is and try to solve it, to then unblock the VM.

Regards,
Daniel
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