Finding the PID number

[ANSA]

Is there another way to find the PID number other than ps -ef | grep <vmname>. I have used ps -ef | grep <vmname> and it does not reture the PID

[RParker]

Nope. That's the only way. VM Ware must have changed this because it was working sometime before 3.5, because we used it.. now it doesn't work any more.

[ANSA]

I am using a 3.0.2 host. I've used it before on a different host of the same version.

[RParker]

Well I don't know what to tell you then. I know I used in the past, and it worked. Somewhere between patching and updating I lost track, but there is no other way to get the process ID of a VM running, unfortunately.

we have a VM that's hung, but luckily I use vmotion, put the host in maintenance mode, and then reboot the host. The process isn't hung after that, it's just a hassle to reboot the server, but this has only happened 1 other time.

[jjohnston1127]

You can also run the command vm-support -x to get the CPU/World ID of the running Virtual Machine if you wanted to thumb through vmkernel and other logfiles to know which VM was logging events.

[ANSA]

How does one corelate the WorldID to the PID, in VI3?

[jjohnston1127]

I'm sorry, I did not mean to mislead you. I was just letting you know how to get the world ID of the machine to look through logfiles in case you were having issues with a particular VM.

Are you sure that the PID is not showing up?

Can you take a screen shot of ps -aux | grep vmware and post it here?

[ANSA]

Here is the screen shot, jjohnston1127

[jlanders]

Does it work if you add 'www' to the flags (i.e. ps -auxwww)?

Thanks,

Joe

[ANSA]

jlanders, the result is the same.

[jjohnston1127 · Accepted solution]

ANSA,

That was doing a grep of hscptonybids002, can you do grep vmware instead?

Also, do esxtop and see if your virtual machine is even listed in the running processes there.

[ANSA]

jjohnston1127, it was displayed with grep vmware Thanks much.