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Pulling the plug, I like it
Pulling the plug, I like it :O the command for killing the guest is very useful.once again an excellent blog. keep them coming.
This is a pretty good way to
This is a pretty good way to find the process you need to kill if a VM hangs. If you decide to use the commands Ed posted, just change "VMName" to the actual VM name, then fix the close parentheses at the end of line 1 and add the "$" to the '{print 21}' for line 2, so it looks like '{print $21}'.I just popped that into a "KillVM.sh" script and use it to nix any pesky hung VMs. I also changed the "vmkload_app -k 19" to "vmkload_app -k 9" so it will do a kill -9 which is signal 9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill).
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# KillVM script
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# Usage: "killVM.sh
#
VMID=`/usr/bin/vm-support -x | grep VMName|awk '{print $1}'|awk -F= '{print $2}'`
KVMID=`cat /proc/vmware/vm/$VMID/cpu/status |awk '{print $21}'|grep -v group|awk -F\. '{print $2}'`
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmkload_app -k 9 $KVMID