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virtualkannan
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VMX is not started

Hi All,

A VM Hosted in the ESX 3.5.0. We are not able to ping it...we are not able to take the console even. When I checked there is a snapshot hanging there. Tried to delete the snapshot manually but got an error message as "The object has already been deleted or has not been completely created". I tried to power off the VM but no use. Even tried to Restart Guest but no use. For both it says "Another task is already in progress".

When I try to take the console of the VM it throws the error message as ;

Unable to connect to the MKS: Error connecting to /vmfs/volumes/4bb52528-eb0b65ab-47ab-0C15c588e53d/<vmname>/<vmname>.vmx because the VMX is not started

Any help and suggestions please....

Thank You.

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Try to find the process which is locking files of the VM.

Therefore http://kb.vmware.com/kb/10051 may help.

Make sure you directly connect to the ESX host on which the VM is running/registered.

André

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a_p_
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Try to find the process which is locking files of the VM.

Therefore http://kb.vmware.com/kb/10051 may help.

Make sure you directly connect to the ESX host on which the VM is running/registered.

André

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