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Unable to power on Virtual Machines In ESX 3.5 (GUI/CLI) posted: May 19, 2009 11:49 PM

Click to view VivekDhayalan's profile Enthusiast 38 posts since
Feb 3, 2009

Hi all,

I was working on ESX 3.5 VM's. I wanted to start the VM through a CLI so I tried vmware-cmd command that time I have got the following error

VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly.

so I tried to power on the virtual machine through GUI. Then I have got the following error

"A
general system error occurred: The system returned an error.
Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted."

but, I was working with the VM before.

Thanks

Vivek


Click to view lamw's profile Champion 2,803 posts since
Nov 27, 2007
On the ESX Service Console try the following command and see if it resolves the issue:

service mgmt-vmware restart


This command will not affect any running VM(s).

Also is this the only VM on the host that is having issues? or are other VM(s) experiencing the same problems?

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Click to view AndreTheGiant's profile Guru 5,916 posts since
Aug 28, 2008
Have you tried to restart the ESX?

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Click to view kcollo's profile Enthusiast 41 posts since
Oct 22, 2008

Have you checked the logs on the local ESX server that's trying to start the vm? Should be more details there. Also, if you have mutliple esx hosts, are you sure that you are trying to control the VM from the ESX host thats currently running it?

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Click to view athlon_crazy's profile Expert 524 posts since
Oct 28, 2007
Have you check on the storage part, VMs configuration files & etc? Could be your ESX unable to connect to your VMs configuration.

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