Comment 1 for bug 1784798

Mitaka and Newton are both end of life, but looking at current master (rocky) this is still a problem most likely:

https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/d4dbb42593893c1d1ed51a127b7183a314bcac2c/nova/compute/manager.py#L3102

Unless something magically started cleaning up the guest on a failed evacuate.

Can you tell where the evacuate failed? Was it during or after the driver.spawn() call here?

https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/d4dbb42593893c1d1ed51a127b7183a314bcac2c/nova/compute/manager.py#L2906