SurlyJake » VMware http://www.surlyjake.com Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:27:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error. http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error http://www.surlyjake.com/linux/vmware-unable-to-change-virtual-machine-power-state-internal-error/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:43:23 +0000 jacob http://www.surlyjake.com/?p=528 Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a zombie ‘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, SIGKILL causes it to terminate immediately. In contrast to SIGTERM and SIGINT, this signal cannot be caught or ignored. For more information: more sigkill info.

killall -s9 vmware-vmx

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

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