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VMware – Stopping a VM via the console

Posted by technonerd on February 25, 2008

Best not to do this unless the VM won’t stop via the VIClient:

  1. Logon to ESX host console
  2. vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename>/<vmname>/<vmname> stop

If that doesn’t work:

  1. vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/<datastorename>/<vmname>/<vmname> stop hard

If that doesn’t work, then:

  1. ps auxfww | grep <vmname>
  2. Find PID of running vm
  3. kill -9 <PID>

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