Best Wednesday post read on a Friday...
From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: can't power off a VM on ESX 3.5 Note to VMWare developers: need. virtual. power. cord. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: Or alternatively, is a snapshot being removed/still open? 2009/10/14 Michael Leone <[email protected]> I have a VM that I am trying to shut down. I went into the OS (Win2000), and told it to shutdown. And it never did - it started to, but never completed; it just hung there, at the "Shutting down Windows" screen. VCenter reports that the VM is powering down, but is stuck at 95%. So after a few minutes, I tried the "shutdown guest OS" feature. Nothing. So then I tried the "power down VM" option. Again, nothing - still shows 95% through the "Powering off virtual machine". Now, I don't care about this VM. I was going to delete the entire thing from disk, anyway. But now I can't seem to stop the silly thing at all. It eventually came back and said that it had timed out. Meanwhile, I still can't power off the thing, so I can delete it. Can't open a console, to see what it says. Can't do a reset, since it says another operation is in progress (although I can't see what operation). Can't delete from disk, since it thinks it's still running. Ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec --------------------------------------------- What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. - Joan Walsh Anglund ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
