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Re: [Xen-users] Wipe Out Xen DB

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Wipe Out Xen DB
From: jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:52:55 -0500
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On Tuesday 04 March 2008 11:02:28 am Hamid Majidy wrote:
> Hello Xen community. How does one wipe out Xen 3.1 server’s database of
> DomUs? I have attempted installation of several DomU guest VMs. Guest
> installations have not been successful, so no corresponding file is created
> in /etc/xen directory. Yet it has some trace of the attempted installation,
> as subsequent runs of virt-install generate “vm01 ERROR:  Domain named vm01
> already exists!” error. The disk file for vm01 has also been deleted. Where
> else does xend keep track of vm01 other than in /etc/xen config files?

Try 'xm destroy domu-name', followed by 'xm delete domu-name'. If the 
domu-name still appears in 'xm list', do an 'xm list -l domu-name' to get the 
domains UUID. Then reboot into a non-xen linux, 
and 'rm -rf /var/lib/xend/domains/UUID'.

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