Force vm shutdown

[Ian Kallen]

I seemed have to developed something corrupted on a VM, when I vagrant up'd it ssh didn't start; I'm assuming it was stuck in single user mode. I had to drop down to irb to do

require 'virtualbox'

vm = VirtualBox::VM.find("vm name")

vm.stop

Then I brought it up from VirtualBox to get a console and fsck. A shutdown and vagrant up later, I'm back in the saddle. vagrant halt doesn't help in this case; without ssh it's helpless. Did I miss something in Vagrant to do the vm shutdown for me?

thanks,

-Ian

[Mike Williams]

On 09/11/2010, at 09:57 , Ian Kallen wrote:

> ... A shutdown and vagrant up later, I'm back in the saddle. vagrant halt doesn't help in this case; without ssh it's helpless. Did I miss something in Vagrant to do the vm shutdown for me?

Try "vagrant halt --force"

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cheers,
Mike Williams

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Mike has the magic command for you :)

But do you have any idea what could be causing this? What changes you
made to your VM/Vagrantfile to make this start occurring?

Mitchell

[Ian Kallen]

Don't know, I've been running ubuntu 9.10, postgres, a buncha ruby code and spec tests for the last few weeks. Today, after one of many random test iterations, read-only filesystem :( 

Since bringing things back, it's been fine (so far). I'm wondering if I should be suspending or halting vm's prior to laptop sleeps but I don't know, that wasn't a problem with my prior uses of vagrant earlier this year. "vagrant help halt" didn't mention a "--force" option, Vagrant::VERSION == 0.6.6

thanks,

-Ian