VMware Fusion won't power down

[Webby]

It is just stuck on the desktop screen. There are no icons or space bar. What do I do?

[CPressland]

Force Shutdown, in the virtual machine menu you have a Turn Off button

[Webby]

I do that and it shuts down, but windows xp itself doesn't want to reboot or shut down. It says the request to reset the virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script did not run successfully.

I do that and it shuts down, but windows xp itself doesn't want to reboot or shut down. It says the request to reset the virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script did not run successfully.

And when I do force quit and start it back up again i get a dialog box saying failed to get exclusive lock on the configuration file.

[Sophism]

Try uninstalling and reinstalling vmware tools, if you dont have them installed, install them.

[CPressland]

Thats weird, so Winblows has crashed during the shutdown procedure and VMWare is too retarded to realise this?

Have you tried going onto the virtual machine and pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC? and force closing different applications? Just an idea, let me find the file that lets the virtual machine know it's running so you can delete it

[CPressland]

Ok, here is how you do it.

Go to the file for the virtual machine in question, for example my XP VM is located at:

/users/Asphyxia8489/Documents/Virtual Machines/WinblowsXP/

Right click the file and click show package contents, and you'll have a file with a weird name like:

564df704-2d8d-6b19-b453-6707bec49a1f.vmem

it's the *.vmem you've got to look for. Trash this file then open the Activity Monitor and force close the process "vmware-vmx" and "VMWare Fusion", you may need to change the "Show" drop-down to "All Processes". Now empty your trash and load up VMWare again :)

I'd recommend running a CHKDSK on the VM just incase it's file/mft damage.

Hope this helps

[Webby]

Ok, here is how you do it.

Go to the file for the virtual machine in question, for example my XP VM is located at:

/users/Asphyxia8489/Documents/Virtual Machines/WinblowsXP/

Right click the file and click show package contents, and you'll have a file with a weird name like:

564df704-2d8d-6b19-b453-6707bec49a1f.vmem

it's the *.vmem you've got to look for. Trash this file then open the Activity Monitor and force close the process "vmware-vmx" and "VMWare Fusion", you may need to change the "Show" drop-down to "All Processes". Now empty your trash and load up VMWare again :)

I'd recommend running a CHKDSK on the VM just incase it's file/mft damage.

Hope this helps

Hey that worked! Thank you so much! :)

[CPressland]

Thats what i'm here for, I just figured that VMWare would use some kind of "Pagefile" for things like that so I had a look around.

[Webby]

There is a problem. I don't get internet connection.

[CPressland]

You mean at all or just in the virtual machines?

[Webby]

You mean at all or just in the virtual machines?

Just virtual machine

[CPressland]

Ok, the easiest way to test this in my opinion is to download a Ubuntu liveCD and see if you can get a Internet connection on that.

If you can, it means the problem is with the Windows XP VM, uninstall and reinstall the VMWare tools package

If you cant, it means the processes VMNET* are broken, in this case pop in your VMWare CD or Download the lastest trial version from their site and uninstall VMWare, restart the Mac, reinstall VMWare, restart the Mac and it should go back to working properly.

[Bandit Darbil]

Try this if you have a VM that just refuses to shut down. Under virtual machine there is an option to shut down guest VM. Hold down the option key on your keyboard and it will then give you the option to power off the virtual machine. I have my get stuck powering down from time to time and this always works for me.

[marcelo.osa]

Ok, here is how you do it.

Go to the file for the virtual machine in question, for example my XP VM is located at:

/users/Asphyxia8489/Documents/Virtual Machines/WinblowsXP/

Right click the file and click show package contents, and you'll have a file with a weird name like:

564df704-2d8d-6b19-b453-6707bec49a1f.vmem

it's the *.vmem you've got to look for. Trash this file then open the Activity Monitor and force close the process "vmware-vmx" and "VMWare Fusion", you may need to change the "Show" drop-down to "All Processes". Now empty your trash and load up VMWare again :)

I'd recommend running a CHKDSK on the VM just incase it's file/mft damage.

Hope this helps

Thanks, it works!

[Hansubi]

Ok, here is how you do it.

Go to the file for the virtual machine in question, for example my XP VM is located at:

/users/Asphyxia8489/Documents/Virtual Machines/WinblowsXP/

Right click the file and click show package contents, and you'll have a file with a weird name like:

564df704-2d8d-6b19-b453-6707bec49a1f.vmem

it's the *.vmem you've got to look for. Trash this file then open the Activity Monitor and force close the process "vmware-vmx" and "VMWare Fusion", you may need to change the "Show" drop-down to "All Processes". Now empty your trash and load up VMWare again :)

I'd recommend running a CHKDSK on the VM just incase it's file/mft damage.

Hope this helps

How do you actually do the parts:

1) force close the process "vmware-vmx" and "VMWare Fusion"

2) change the "Show" drop-down to "All Processes"

I can't find any "Force Close" -option from the activity monitor (all that i can find is mac's force quit, but that's different thing)

I'd appreciate help! :)

-Hansubi

[dyn]

I do that and it shuts down, but windows xp itself doesn't want to reboot or shut down. It says the request to reset the virtual machine failed because the corresponding vmware tools script did not run successfully.

And when I do force quit and start it back up again i get a dialog box saying failed to get exclusive lock on the configuration file.

You get all sorts of problems when you force quite Fusion. This is not recommended!

If a vm does not want to shutdown for whatever reason try to force the shutdown of the vm first. You can add the shutdown button to the vm toolbar if you want but normally you'll have to choose it from the menu (Virtual machine > Shut down). Pressing the button or choosing the menu option will do a normal shutdown, it does not force it. If you need to force it you need to press and hold the option key and than press the shutdown button or choose it from the menu. This also works for reboot and resume.

@ Hansubi: open Activity Monitor and take a look at the right hand side of the toolbar, click on the pulldown menu on the left hand side of the search field (it has the word "filter" in it) and choose the option "All processes". Now look for vmware-vmx and VMware Fusion. Select the process and hit the big red Quit Process button on the far left of the toolbar. Doing so will bring up a dialog with the Force Quit, Cancel and Quit button. Now guess which button you have to click :)