Issue: VM cannot be stopped immediately. Neither “shut down” nor “stop” works.
Reason: This is usually because the “shutdown” command has failed and continues to exist as a process. This blocks other commands, such as the “stop” command.
Solution: Therefore, the failed process must be killed with the following commands. The VM then accepts the “stop” command.
How To:
- On Proxmox Shell type following commands
- ps aux | grep # will show you the kvm process ID running your VMID
- kill -9 # you can now kill it with the process ID
Sources:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/cant-shutdown-stop-vm.121754
