shutdown VM hang at 95%

[violet68]

Hi all,

do you know how to fix the problem when i shutdown the virtual machine and it hangs at 95%, i cant do anything but shutdown the ESX3 host.

do you know what to do to avoid the restart of ESX host ?

thanks

[hicksj]

Login to the ESX console.

ps -efwww | grep "VMNAME.vmx"

kill -9 PID

(PID = process ID)

Example:

\# ps -efwww | grep "VM1.vmx"

root 25240 1 0 Mar02 ? 00:00:28 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmkload_app /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -ssched.group=host/user -@ pipe=/tmp/vmhsdaemon-0/vmxd399ac93d25a2ebc;vm=d399ac9d425a2ebc /vmfs/volumes/448960cd-68bc05c3-8258-00110a77cd51/VM1/VM1.vmx

\# kill -9 25240

[violet68]

it works, thanks alot.