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SamuelR
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Phantom VM

Hi!

I've got a problem in my VmWare Architecture., there it is : I had a vm with the problem "Could not power on VM: No swap file. Failed to power on VM". In VI, the VM was power off, but it was still on! (It's a debian 4.0) I couldn't stop the server or reboot when I logged on it. Instead of check this error in the community, I simply delete (action delete from disk from the VI) the VM because I've got a backup. So I deleted the VM, all is ok in VI, but the serveris still here, I can ping it (there's no error in my dns). I looked at in the datastore, there's the folder of VM, the .vmx is removed but the .vmdk is still here. I can't logged on the server but I want to delete it in order to backup.

There's my question : How Can I delete this phantom VM ? If you have some ideas,

Regards,

Samuel

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AndreTheGiant
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Have a look at:

http://virtrix.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-stopping-virtual-machine-gone.html

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro

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AndreTheGiant
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Have a look at:

http://virtrix.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-stopping-virtual-machine-gone.html

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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