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Cannot delete stopped VM - "Cannot modify extensions in the VM when the VM is not running."

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Describe the bug Cannot delete a disabled/stopped VM.

Steps to reproduce

Create VM
Disable VM
Delete VM

Get the error: .VirtualMachineExtensionsClient#Delete: Failure sending request: StatusCode=0 -- Original Error: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. Status=<nil> Code="OperationNotAllowed" Message="Cannot modify extensions in the VM when the VM is not running.

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Created a year ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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stuartleekscommented, Jun 28, 2022

Seems to be a “known issue” on azurerm provider: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/6098

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stuartleekscommented, Jun 30, 2022

That seems like a plan to me - we would only add this step in the delete action where we’re going to clean up the VM anyway!

We could consider listing the terraform state and running through a grep for .azurerm_virtual_machine_extension. and then running the terraform state rm for any matches. That way we won’t have to remember to update it if we rename the resource or add new extensions.

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