How to force shutdown a KVM VM with virsh

I have a KVM virtual machine running Windows, and when I try to shutdown, it never stopped.

root@sok:~# virsh list
 Id   Name       State
--------------------------
 1    iredmail   running
 3    win10      running

root@sok:~# virsh shutdown win10
Domain win10 is being shutdown

root@sok:~# virsh list
 Id   Name       State
--------------------------
 1    iredmail   running
 3    win10      running

root@sok:~# 

To force shutdown a KVM virtual machine using virsh, you can use the command

virsh destroy VM_NAME

Example

root@sok:~# virsh destroy win10
Domain win10 destroyed

root@sok:~# virsh list 
 Id   Name       State
--------------------------
 1    iredmail   running

root@sok:~# virsh start win10
Domain win10 started

root@sok:~# virsh list
 Id   Name       State
--------------------------
 1    iredmail   running
 4    win10      running

root@sok:~#

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