'Forced = true' means even if stopping the VM failed on the hypervisor, CS will go ahead and mark it as stopped in database and the API will return success. If 'forced = false' then API would return failure in this case.
On 23-Apr-2014, at 9:36 PM, Phillip Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am puzzled about the meaning of 'forced stop', as in the parameter > forced=true for API call stopVirtualMachine. (For CloudStack 4.2.1 to be > precise.) > > The command reference page says: > "Force stop the VM (vm is marked as Stopped even when command fails to > be send to the backend). The caller knows the VM is stopped." > > which does not help me at all. > > Can anyone clarify? > > - Phillip > >
