The Real (and Virtual) Adventures of Nathan the IT Guy » ps auxfww | grep http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/information-technology Fri, 17 May 2013 13:18:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How to Properly kill a VM http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/information-technology/how-to-properly-kill-a-vm/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/information-technology/how-to-properly-kill-a-vm/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:42:11 +0000 Nathan Simon http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/information-technology/how-to-properly-kill-a-vm/ We all know that you can use the command “ps -ef |grep (vmconfig filename.vmx)” to find the PID for a VM, but I get confused as to which number that comes up is actually the PID… I found a new command that works much better. See below.

The Definitive way to Kill a PID process

The steps below are based on the fact that you already tried to use “vmware-cmd vmname.vmx stop; stop hard”

1.)    A final solution is to kill the PID (process ID). Issue the following command: “ps auxfww | grep <vmname>” to locate the correct PID (BTW: this cannot be done via *ESXTOP*). The first number to appear in the output is your PID. The PID can be used to terminate the process by issuing kill -9 PID.

2.)    Run vmware-cmd <vmname>.vmx getstate to see if it is now “off”, as it should be.

3.)    You can now go back into Virtual Infrastructure Client and start the machine.

-NS

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