Killing a Hung VM in Task Manager (Another PowerShell command)

This is another command of how to kill a Hung VM by identify the Process ID using PowerShell command :

For Windows 2012

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization -class msvm_computersystem | select elementname, operationalstatus, processid, name| ft –auto

For Window 2012 R2

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\virtualization\v2 -class msvm_computersystem | select elementname, operationalstatus, processid, name| ft –auto

Once the Process ID is obtain, launch the Task Manager and kill the VMWP.exe process with the correspondence Process  ID to that particular VM.

Hope this helps.

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