How to shutdown or start up a guest operating system from esx console?

[larjona]

Hi

I spend two hours looking for the command to shutdown a virtual guest operating system from the esx service console command line. I don't have any idea or response.

Can you help me please?

In case of disaster, I must go to my service console command line, and shutdown correctly the virtual machine guest operating system, and then the ESX server.

How?

Thanks

[rpartmann]

Hi,

take a look athe command: vmware-cmd

hth,

Reinhard

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[ascari · Accepted solution]

Hi, i think you can use your Virtual Infrastructure client. Otherwise you can use vmware-cmd command:

example: # vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/44ebf538-51cc7998-2525-00145e1b556a/printer/printer.vmx stop trysoft

bye

Alberto