Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error.

Ran into this while running under . I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a ‘vmware-vmx’ process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends ‘signal 9′ to the process. When sent to a program, causes it to terminate immediately. In contrast to and SIGINT, this signal cannot be caught or ignored. For more information: more sigkill info.

 -s9 vmware-vmx

After that, I was able to start up the virtual machine without issue.

2009
08/14
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Ubuntu
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9 comments
    • nick
    • April 30th, 2010

    great… thanks for your magic kill :) )

    • Evan L. Schemm
    • May 14th, 2010

    Thanks. This solved my problem exactly.

    • Peter D
    • November 11th, 2010

    Great, thanks!

    • Alex
    • January 10th, 2011

    Thank you very much. It helped!

    • jimmy
    • February 17th, 2011

    how to do it??can u tell me step-by step on how to do it…thnkss

    • glen
    • August 10th, 2011

    Perfect! Thanks for the solution.

    • Hemayat
    • August 12th, 2011

    Thank you! worked like a charm.

    • JBenison
    • September 15th, 2011

    Thanks a lot for the solution. Magic Kill it is!

    • VPelagatti
    • November 11th, 2011

    Great! Work for me too

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