...hopefully some useful VMware related stuff
Killing the running process of a Virtual Machine in the host service console
30/06/2009 12:00
If a Virtual Machine is showing as being Powered On when it is off, or in a hung state and can't be restarted through the console or by using the vmware-cmd commands. Run the following commands:
Finds the process ID of the affected Virtual Machine:
ps -auwx | grep -i
Then stop the process running allowing you to power on the Virtual Machine again properly:
kill -9 <PID found above>