Virtual Machine - Unknown State

[davidjerwood]

I have a virtual machine (WinXP) running on ESX 3.5 which does not appear to be functioning correctly. The icon has a pause icon I believe indicating that the vm is suspended. But when I right click I only have the option to power on. When I try this I get the following error. "A general system error occured: Internal error."

Has anyone seen this issue before?

[Chris_Howard]

Not seen it before.

From the service console, I would try :-

vmware-cmd <path to vmx file> getstate

Which should tell you the state vmware thinks the vm is in.

You might then try a vmware-cmd <path to vmx file> stop or vmware-cmd <path to vmx file> reset

Alternatively do a ps -ef | grep "<some part of vm name>" to see if an associated vmware-vmx process is running, and maybe kill it off.

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