[PVE-User] Can I delete the hard disk of a running VM??!! Really??!! It can't be!!!

[David Lawley]

I have had this happen when I switched a machine to HA while it was 
running... It kinda left the non HA machine running and unlisted.

Even tho I shut it down I could still ping it.. and it was still active 
and yes, created all kind of havoc... till I discovered it running via 
htop.  Its documented somewhere in HA faq...  but I missed it.

On 10/16/2014 5:41 PM, Hector Suarez Planas wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm testing a VM with VyOS and I accidentally delete the hard disk, but
> ¡¡¡The VM still powered on!!!. I reboot the VM and working on after
> reboot. Where is the hard disk? Well, the qcow2 file do not exist on
> /var/lib/vz/imaged/VMID. This thing is using a cached hard disk??!! I
> thought I went crazy, but not.
>
> I power off the VM completely and turn on it again. Aaaaaahhh, disk not
> found:
>
> No bootable device
>
> This bug must be fix. When VM is powered on, the hard disk or other
> device must be locked.
> If someone malicious comes up to remove hard disks of our powered on
> virtual machines, we're screwed.
> :(
>
>
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