i've got a VM on a citrix xenserver 5.0.0 machine that won't start. it was running find until it was rebooted on Fri afternoon. starting it from the (windows-only) xencenter GUI results in: "This VM cannot be started, as its network interfaces could not be connected. One of the NICs is in use elsewhere." starting it from the command line results in: # xe vm-start uuid=88915b63-d794-e021-4f78-b03f46e352b0 Cannot plug VIF VIF: 5dfd3886-8b48-20e5-4231-30284d7b185d anyone seen this before? know how to fix? i've tried deleting and re-creating the network interface for the VM. i've tried booting the VM without any network interface at all. i've tried "xe vif-unplug --force uuid=5dfd3886-8b48-20e5-4231-30284d7b185d" (doesn't work, expects the VM to be running, not halted). in fact, i've lost track of all the things i've tried doing that haven't worked. I haven't rebooted the xen server and *really* don't want to have to do that. I'd rather create a new VM and copy the OS (debian, fortunately so relatively easy to do) than reboot the server. craig ps: I've found this[1] via google, which looks like the same problem. the answer given by J Cannon at the bottom is flat out wrong. http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1431119 -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #32: techtonic stress