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How do you kill a VM that will not power off?

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Sometimes a virtual machine will not power off via the web client. To resolve this, the process is very simple:

  1. Enable SSH on the host that the VM is running on:

2. Login to the host via SSH

3. Run the following command:

esxcli vm process list

4. Find the world ID for the VM you want to power off:

5. Run the following command:

esxcli vm process kill -t=force -w=xxxxx

Note that force is the equivalent as pulling the power from the VM

xxxxx is the world ID as you located previously from esxcli vm process list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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