# Remove a zombie VM

**URL:** <https://forum.opennebula.io/t/remove-a-zombie-vm/5423>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 14, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/remove-a-zombie-vm/5423 "2017-12-14T09:38:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![marcounet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@marcounet](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/marcounet)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/remove-a-zombie-vm/5423/1 "2017-12-14T09:38:05Z")

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Opennebula show me the VM id28 is using my image but the vm id28 isn’t in the instance panel.  
How can I delete it ?

One VM say:

> onevm show 28  
> VIRTUAL MACHINE 28 INFORMATION  
> ID : 28  
> NAME : test1  
> USER : oneadmin  
> GROUP : oneadmin  
> STATE : DONE  
> LCM\_STATE : LCM\_INIT  
> RESCHED : No  
> START TIME : 12/13 16:32:29  
> END TIME : 12/13 16:38:45  
> DEPLOY ID : -

VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORING

PERMISSIONS  
OWNER : um-  
GROUP : —  
OTHER : —

VM DISKS  
ID DATASTORE TARGET IMAGE SIZE TYPE SAVE  
0 Ceph-image vda CentOS 7 - KVM -/8G rbd NO  
1 - hda CONTEXT -/- - -

VM NICS  
ID NETWORK BRIDGE IP MAC PCI\_ID  
0 vlan1 onebr.1 10.1.255.0 02:00:0a:01:ff:00

SECURITY

NIC\_ID NETWORK SECURITY\_GROUPS  
0 vlan1 0

SECURITY GROUP TYPE PROTOCOL NETWORK RANGE  
ID NAME VNET START SIZE  
0 default OUTBOUND ALL  
0 default INBOUND ALL

USER TEMPLATE  
LOGO=“images/logos/centos.png”

VIRTUAL MACHINE TEMPLATE  
AUTOMATIC\_DS\_REQUIREMENTS=“"CLUSTERS/ID" @\> 0”  
AUTOMATIC\_REQUIREMENTS=“(CLUSTER\_ID = 0) & !(PUBLIC\_CLOUD = YES)”  
CONTEXT=[  
DISK\_ID=“1”,  
ETH0\_CONTEXT\_FORCE\_IPV4=“”,  
ETH0\_DNS=“10.1.30.24”,  
ETH0\_GATEWAY=“10.1.0.255”,  
ETH0\_GATEWAY6=“”,  
ETH0\_IP=“10.1.255.0”,  
ETH0\_IP6=“”,  
ETH0\_IP6\_PREFIX\_LENGTH=“”,  
ETH0\_IP6\_ULA=“”,  
ETH0\_MAC=“02:00:0a:01:ff:00”,  
ETH0\_MASK=“255.255.0.0”,  
ETH0\_MTU=“”,  
ETH0\_NETWORK=“10.1.0.0”,  
ETH0\_SEARCH\_DOMAIN=“”,  
ETH0\_VLAN\_ID=“1”,  
ETH0\_VROUTER\_IP=“”,  
ETH0\_VROUTER\_IP6=“”,  
ETH0\_VROUTER\_MANAGEMENT=“”,  
NETWORK=“YES”,  
SSH\_PUBLIC\_KEY=“”,  
TARGET=“hda” ]  
CPU=“1”  
GRAPHICS=[  
LISTEN=“0.0.0.0”,  
TYPE=“vnc” ]  
MEMORY=“768”  
OS=[  
ARCH=“x86\_64” ]  
TEMPLATE\_ID=“7”  
VMID=“28”

> onevm recover 28 --delete -v  
> VM 28: recovering

But it’s still here !

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**Author:** ![dubcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dubcl](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/dubcl)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/remove-a-zombie-vm/5423/2 "2017-12-15T17:55:35Z")

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try to deploy again, then destroy
