> Did you try: > > virsh undefine domain-id > > where domain-id is your vm name Perfect, thanks Earl! Here's the script in case anyone else might find it useful. Please post any improvements if you can see a way to improve it. #!/bin/bash # Removes all KVM virtual machines from this host # First destroy all running VMs for i in $(virsh -q list | awk '{ print $2 }'); do virsh destroy $i; virsh undefine $i; done; # Next we delete their virtual disk images rm -rf /var/lib/libvirt/images/*.img