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nava_thulasi39

send ctrl Alt Del is not working in few VMs

Hi,

send ctrl Alt Del is not working in few VMs. Checked the VMware tools, it's up to date and running. Rebooted or Reset the VMs but still the issue exists.

Guest os is Windows xp (32 bit) running on ESXi4.1 and ESX 3.5 hosts.

Any help on this? Thanks in advance.

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Troy_Clavell
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if you can, power down the guest, make a note of the datastore it's running on, remove the VM from inventory, then browse the datastore and add the VM back to inventory.  After it's powered back on, try the "send Ctrl Alt Del" again.

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nava_thulasi39

Hi Troy,

Thanks for the quick reply. Tried the same but issue still exists.  Any tips further?

PS: After removing the VM from inventory, came to know vmx file is grayed out. So added to the inventory by command line.

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Troy_Clavell
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while the cursor is inside the VMs console, does Ctrl Alt Insert work?

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nava_thulasi39

Hi Troy,

No. It's not responding to Ctrl Alt Insert inside the VM console.

It didn't fetch the IP address from the DHCP due to some network issue, so there is no chance of trying RDP too..

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