the only thing referencing xcp-ng-02 when i xe vm-list

uuid ( RO) : 0002a023-44d2-4185-a949-a8583d070a76
name-label ( RW): Control domain on host: xcp-ng-02
power-state ( RO): running

[12:52 xcp-ng-01 ~]# xe host-forget uuid=3cbe29ad-6b34-43c9-bc66-14f5652cab41
WARNING: A host should only be forgotten if it is physically unrecoverable;
WARNING: if possible, Hosts should be 'ejected' from the Pool instead.
WARNING: Once a host has been forgotten it will have to be re-installed.
WARNING: This operation is irreversible.
Type 'yes' to continue
yes
This server cannot be forgotten because there are user VMs still running.
host: 3cbe29ad-6b34-43c9-bc66-14f5652cab41 (xcp-ng-02)

how can the vm's be running when the server no longer existes?

I have a server that had a major hardware failure we had to rebuild the server. when we rebuilt the server it was issued a different hostname and ip address. We added the server to the pool and was able to deploy a vm on the new server.

the issue is the old server is listed in the pool, we can not remove the server from the pool, on top of that in XOA it is showing 2 vm's running on the ghost server.

1. how can one clean up the ghost vm's?
2. remove the reference to the old server form the pool?

has anyone been able to clone a linode VM to xcp-ng to have a local copy or possible backup copy if they are closing down linode instance?