Kill a Running VMware Virtual Machine

linux vmware sysadmin virtualization
<p>Kill a running VMware virtual machine from the command line...</p> <pre><code>killall vmware-vmx </code></pre> <p>This will kill all running VMware virtual machines. If you want to kill a specific virtual machine, you can use the <code>ps</code> command to find the process ID (PID) of the virtual machine and then use the <code>kill</code> command to kill it.</p> <pre><code>ps -ef | grep vmware-vmx

kill -9 <PID> </code></pre>

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