Убить зависшую ВМ

Если у вас "подвисла" ВМ на ESX(i)4, и не удается ее ни выключить, ни перезагрузить, ни получить к ней доступ, то что следует попробовать:

1) vmware-cmd



2) vm-support


3) kill



4) хитроковарно

Although kill -9 is an option. VMware support has advised, and I have experienced, that you could possibly still leave remnants of a VM running if you do that. Here is a cleaner way to kill the VM:

1. If the vmware-cmd does not help next up is to kill the master user world id
2. cat /proc/vmware/vm/*/names |grep vmname where vmname is the vm that is hung and find the value for vmid
3. less /proc/vmware/vm/vmid value/cpu/status where vmid value is the number from step above.
4. scroll over to the right until you find the group field that shows vm.#### where the #### numbers after vm. will be the master user world id
5. /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmkload_app -k 9 #### where #### is the master user world id
If successful you will get a WARNING message that a signal 9 is being sent and this will cleanly kill all processes associated with the VM.

Однако, хитроковарно у меня не получилось - путь из шага два я не нашел.
Надеюсь, разберусь позже.

Все примерно так же и для ESXi, с небольшими поправками.

Источник - Killing a frozen VM on a vSphere ESX host.