Comment 2 for bug 1009893

I've tested with the default Devstack setup - no problem to terminate a 'Suspended' instance. No errors, all fine.
Please specify what kind of virt driver do you use, what type is the virtual instance. And even more important - is this the latest dev code(Folsom), or Essex? In the NOVA API current code we have:

    # NOTE(maoy): we allow delete to be called no matter what vm_state says.
    @wrap_check_policy
    @check_instance_state(vm_state=None, task_state=None)
    def delete(self, context, instance):

So it seems no limitation to the vm_state for termination.