How-To: Hyper-V: Kill VM Process hung at Stopping/Starting/Snapshotting

Our search turned up the following:

• Dave’s Blog: How to identify Hyper-V VM by worker process if VM is hung on Starting/Stopping/Snapshotting

Our process is as follows:

1. Open Task Manager
2. Processes tab
3. Click View and Select Columns
4. Select and click OK:
1. Image Path Name
2. Command Line
3. 
5. Click the Image Name column header to sort.
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6. Open Windows Explorer and browse to the Hyper-V folder where the VMs are stored.
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7. For smaller deploys we open the XML file with NotePad to discover the correct GUID associated with the VM.
8. In our case it was VMWP.exe with GUID 52806B15-
9. Terminate the process.

Once the VM’s process has been terminated we can address what was causing the stoppage, which in this case was an errant pass-through USB drive.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

Windows Live Writer