Saturday, August 29, 2009

Kill a VM from Service Console

sometimes Virtual Center won't perform task.If your virtual machine is in hung state and not able to kill from VC so please use the following method to kill the VM from Service Console.


[root@XXXXX]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMfoldername/VM.vmx stop

Note: Don't use friendly datestore name.

if the above fails,then try it with the hard option,

[root@XXXXX]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/datastore/VMfoldername/VM.vmx stop hard

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