VM stuck in an invalid state

NOTE: this information is not my own experience and was resolved by other people, but I found it interesting and it exists on a site that is not easy to search and I may not always have access to. (Honestly: the whole thing doesn't make much sense to me at this point, but it has some pretty stellar troubleshooting bits in there...)

The user had an issue with a VM being unavailable and this was the resolution.

2012-02-21 16:55:59,524 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.StopVmCommand] (pool-12-thread-49) Running command: StopVmCommand internal: false. Entities affected :  ID: a55532fa-066b-4329-a551-07b1bce6d577 Type: VM
2012-02-21 16:55:59,527 WARN  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmOperationCommandBase] (pool-12-thread-49) Strange, according to the status "NotResponding" virtual machine "a55532fa-066b-4329-a551-07b1bce6d577" should be running in a host but it isnt.
2012-02-21 16:55:59,558 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.StopVmCommand] (pool-12-thread-49) Transaction rolled-back for command: org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.StopVmCommand.

If I try to force-remove the VM - since no important content is on it, here is what I get back :

[root@rhevm ~]# curl -X DELETE -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-type: application/xml" -u admin@internal:[] --cacert /root/ca.crt -d "<action><force>true</force></action>"  https://[]:8443/api/vms/a55532fa-066b-4329-a551-07b1bce6d577

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><fault><reason>Operation Failed</reason><detail>[Cannot remove VM. VM is running.]</detail></fault>

[root@rhevm ~] # yum info rhevm

Name        : rhevm
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.0.2_0001
Release     : 2.el6

[root@rhevm ~] #  rhn-channel --list

jbappplatform-5-x86_64-server-6-rpm
rhel-x86_64-server-6
rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3
rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6

ssh to RHEV-M host as root

[root@rhevm ~] # service jbossas stop 

[root@rhevm ~] # psql -U rhevm  rhevm

  rhevm=# update vm_dynamic set status = 0 where vm_guid = 'a55532fa-066b-4329-a551-07b1bce6d577' ;  

  rhevm=# \q

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