Comments on: Restarting VmWare guest if shutdown is not successful

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:05:37 +0000

Thanks!! I also used the activity monitor per the post above and that solved it. It sure would be nice if you had the ability from within VMware to just power down the VM as it was not responding to the Shutdown command.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:47:26 +0000

Thanks for the info. Helped a bunch.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:21:07 +0000

Thanks very much for this, most helpful!

By: Bill H.

Bill H. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:41:43 +0000

Had the same problem with a customer’s computer. OP and JJ’s suggestion got us back up and working.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:26:04 +0000

Got the same problem after windows XP updated and restarted.

I used activity monitor, then on top right pull down menu I choose to show all-processes hierachically; the vmware-vmx process showed up in the process list. I simply killed it and was able to restart windows XP without restating VWMARE

By: newzgeek

newzgeek — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:46:23 +0000

just had the same problem – thanks for the solution!