Cannot take ownership of two machines after power failure

[jmchristopher]

Greetings... Recently I experienced a power failure at my office when I was running two different virtual machines. Upon restarting, I am unable to connect to the machines as VMWare tells me "This virutal machine appears to be in use." If I press the "Take Ownership" button, it immediantely returns with a dialog box indicating "Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed." How do I unlock these machines?

Thanks in advance

Jason

[InterSecurity]

Strange, that "take ownership" is mostly working, but sometimes need manual deletion of .lck folders...

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[Albasrawi]

April 27, 2023 and the solution is still valid. Deleting the (.lck) folder resolved the issue for me. Thank you.

[Olafha]

Hi @wila the process you described about to shut it down i coudln't do it until I delete the files you said ".lck" this was on my case.

Thanks you so much.

[xcent]

This article explains this error perfectly and the steps to resolve it graphically: https://techdirectarchive.com/2021/02/02/taking-ownership-of-a-vm-failed-the-virtual-machine-appears...