Cannot power on VM - task hanging

[rvanthiel]

Good morning -

I had a problem with a VM that locked up pretty good, had to power off and the VM did fully power off.

I attempted to power on the VM again, and the task to do the power on is hanging. "Power on Virtual Machine" - Status "In Progress". It's been this way for almost 60 minutes now. What is my course of action? Thanks much!

[rvanthiel]

Must have been some crazy VC thing. I bounced the Virtual Center server, and while that was rebooting, I accessed the ESX web access and was able to start the VM. So I'm good now.

Anything else I could have done within VC or is what I did appropriate?

[esiebert7625 · Accepted solution]

From the SC you can check state by typing “vmware-cmd /” Note - In rare conditions, doing a kill -9 on a VM can take down the entire host

[rvanthiel]

Very good info, thanks for the assistance.

[kurtwest]

This worked for me, but I would add to find the directory of the VM type vmware-cmd -l