Comments on: VMWare ESX – How to clear a hung VM guest OS. http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm TechHead.co.uk is a site dedicated to information on various IT technologies, solutions, fixes and IT news. Topic areas include HP Proliant Servers & Storage, VMware vSphere,ESX,ESXi, Microsoft Hyper V and Windows Server Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:13:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kiwi Si http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-10204 Kiwi Si Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:14:26 +0000 http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-10204 Hi Jeff, Glad you found it useful, a trip or call to the datacenter is always good to avoid. :) Cheers, Simon Hi Jeff,

Glad you found it useful, a trip or call to the datacenter is always good to avoid. :)

Cheers,

Simon

]]> By: Jeff Jennings http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-10202 Jeff Jennings Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:26:08 +0000 http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-10202 Kudo's to you. I did not want to have to call the datacenter and have them reboot the host machine - this worked! Kudo’s to you. I did not want to have to call the datacenter and have them reboot the host machine – this worked!

]]> By: Evert Meulie http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-9705 Evert Meulie Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:02:53 +0000 http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-9705 Thanks, guys! You saved me from having to take an entire webfarm down! :-) Greetings, Evert Thanks, guys!

You saved me from having to take an entire webfarm down! :-)

Greetings,
Evert

]]> By: Carl Amess http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-3902 Carl Amess Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:10:14 +0000 http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-3902 Hi, This killed the VM Guest for us but the GUI and command line still showed that it was still running so that we could not restart. We had to restart then management interface on the actual ESX server using the following command:- service mgmt-vmware restart Although you have to make sure that the option to Automatically Startup/Shutdown the virtual machines with the System is set to disabled on the ESX server. Regards Hi,

This killed the VM Guest for us but the GUI and command line still showed that it was still running so that we could not restart.

We had to restart then management interface on the actual ESX server using the following command:-

service mgmt-vmware restart

Although you have to make sure that the option to Automatically Startup/Shutdown the virtual machines with the System is set to disabled on the ESX server.

Regards

]]> By: Ryan Liebke http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-3819 Ryan Liebke Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:45:28 +0000 http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-esx-how-to-clear-a-hung-vm#comment-3819 Dude, You are the man! vm-support -X did the trick. Thank you for taking the time to post this! Dude, You are the man! vm-support -X did the trick. Thank you for taking the time to post this!

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