Guest VM was removed from inventory but can't delet .vmdk files...

[COS]

I have one guest that was removed from inventory but I cn not delete the .vmdk files. I get "The device is busy" when trying to delete from the physical console (not remote console). I am positive I log in as root. I just need to delete everything as well as thr directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[depping]

it's locked for some reason, you could check with lsof if some process is still accessing the file. lsof | grep "vm-name" should provide you with a list.

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[COS]

That came up empty. Strangely I ran the same command against a running VM and it to came up empty.

I ran the command several times and still empty.

Anything else to try?

[Ajay_Nabh · Accepted solution]

Hi COS

It may sound stupid but restart of ESX may be a help

Cheers

Ajay