Comments on: The Basics: How to kill a VM that’s stuck during shutdown? http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/ Building blocks for virtualization... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:29:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cody Bunch http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-3233 Cody Bunch Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:38:39 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=2847#comment-3233 Another post on the same. Nice to have the info in more hands: http://professionalvmware.com/2008/12/04/killing-a-stuck-or-hung-vm/ -Cody Bunch http://professionalvmware.com Another post on the same. Nice to have the info in more hands: http://professionalvmware.com/2008/12/04/killing-a-stuck-or-hung-vm/

-Cody Bunch
http://professionalvmware.com

]]> By: William http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-3232 William Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:37:11 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=2847#comment-3232 Good article for reference, this issue does come up pretty often on the VMTN forums and I had just answered two questions last week regarding the same issue. Too bad there is not an equilv for ESXi, at least as far as I'm aware of. @devnull - vmware-cmd is actually depreciated command, it works pretty well for the most part but there are times where it'll just act up. I'm sure you could potentially get into the same issue as using vimsh or the vimsh wrapper. In either case, it's good to know how to find the process and kill it. Good article for reference, this issue does come up pretty often on the VMTN forums and I had just answered two questions last week regarding the same issue. Too bad there is not an equilv for ESXi, at least as far as I’m aware of.

@devnull – vmware-cmd is actually depreciated command, it works pretty well for the most part but there are times where it’ll just act up. I’m sure you could potentially get into the same issue as using vimsh or the vimsh wrapper. In either case, it’s good to know how to find the process and kill it.

]]> By: devnull http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-3231 devnull Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:36:17 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=2847#comment-3231 I've had some success using vimsh where vmware-cmd will not work. In vimsh: vmsvc/getallvms (find the vmid you are looking for) vmsvc/poweroff $vmid I’ve had some success using vimsh where vmware-cmd will not work.

In vimsh:
vmsvc/getallvms (find the vmid you are looking for)
vmsvc/poweroff $vmid

]]> By: Jason Boche http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-3228 Jason Boche Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:32:28 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=2847#comment-3228 Oh, and option 3 - who can remember all those silly little switches, except for Linux folks :) Oh, and option 3 – who can remember all those silly little switches, except for Linux folks :)

]]> By: Jason Boche http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-3227 Jason Boche Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:31:27 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=2847#comment-3227 Good stuff. Back in the GSX Server days, I would use 'vmware-cmd stop trysoft hard' in my shutdown scripts. Is 'hard' implied now if 'trysoft' does not work? I wasn't aware of the -x option to grab the PID. My method is to use ESXTOP, and use 'e' to expand the PIDs of a particular VM. The method you demonstrate here is quicker. Jas Good stuff.

Back in the GSX Server days, I would use ‘vmware-cmd stop trysoft hard’ in my shutdown scripts. Is ‘hard’ implied now if ‘trysoft’ does not work?

I wasn’t aware of the -x option to grab the PID. My method is to use ESXTOP, and use ‘e’ to expand the PIDs of a particular VM. The method you demonstrate here is quicker.

Jas

]]> By: VMwarewolf http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/15/the-basics-how-to-kill-a-vm-thats-stuck-during-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-3226 VMwarewolf Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:29:31 +0000 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/?p=2847#comment-3226 I believe the Knowledge base article you were looking for that discusses this is at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004340 I believe the Knowledge base article you were looking for that discusses this is at: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1004340

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