Is it not just a problem in Virtualcenter (if you have it)? If you connect direct to the ESX host, does it shut down/reset?
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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
