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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Zombie domU state!
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:52:45 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:16:23AM +0530, Ata Bohra wrote:
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> Dear All, 
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> I am looking for an advice about the Zombie state for a Xen domUs. I have observed that certain number of times when I try to shutdown a domU, it ends up going in to a "Zombie" state which does not allow even "destroy" nor "shutdown". The only workaround I could find is to restart the machine to get rid of that domU. 
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> If anyone have some idea about this issue, please let me know why this occurs and if possible the solution to fix it without getting the machine restarted.

Are you using iSCSI?