{"id":5055,"date":"2021-03-28T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2021-03-28T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:52:09","slug":"force-kill-frozen-hyper-v-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/force-kill-frozen-hyper-v-vm","title":{"rendered":"Force Kill Frozen Hyper V VM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you can&#8217;t shutdown or power off a VM , this is how to force kill it<\/p><p>Open this directory in File Explorer and find the folder with the same name as your virtual machine has. Copy the GUID that is specified in the name of the VM configuration file with the *.vmcx extension.<\/p><p id=\"oIhvujF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5057  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_605fe12371a68.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_605fe12371a68.png 643w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_605fe12371a68-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p><p>Run the\u00a0<strong>Task<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Manager\u00a0<\/strong>and go to the\u00a0<strong>Details\u00a0<\/strong>tab. All virtual machines are running in their own instance of\u00a0<strong>vmwp.exe<\/strong>. To determine which process is responsible for your VM, you need the GUID of the hung-up VM you obtained earlier. Locate the process vmwp.exe that has the GUID of your VM in the\u00a0<strong>User<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>name<\/strong>\u00a0column. Kill this process (<strong>End Task<\/strong>).<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p id=\"CwoArXw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5056  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_605fe11c39e1d.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_605fe11c39e1d.png 675w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_605fe11c39e1d-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you can&#8217;t shutdown or power off a VM , this is how to force kill itOpen this directory in File Explorer and find the folder with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1905,2450,3456,3231,3457],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-force","tag-hyper-v","tag-kill","tag-vm","tag-vmwp-exe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}