Hello, we have recently upgraded some of our servers from VMWare Server 1.0 to 2.0
Most of those server are running legacy application that sometimes hangs or behaves incorrectly.
VMWare 1.0 was an excellent solution to address most of the issues since we were restarting the VMs every night using vmCom API and this worked perfectly for over a year.
With VMWare 2.0 we are back into hell of hanging application and stuck computers. Using VIX API the VMs are not restarted using the PowerOff command when an application is stuck inside the VM.
Even using vmrun http://... stop hard the command remains stuck and does nothing in that condition. And even using Power Off or Shutdown from the console does nothing, the only command that does something in Reset.
In this condition we have very little advantage in using a virtualization product instead of a physical PC
Anybody experienced similar problems and found a solution or a workaround?
Thanks