Failed to start quiescing operation in the virtual machine.

The error msg:
Failed to start quiescing operation in the virtual machine.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1018194

Solution:
To re-install VMware tool and un-check "SyncDriver" for Windows 2000 virtual machine only.

How to power-off VM guest with ESXi 5 esxcli command

1. SSH to VM host.

2. Type "esxcli vm process list" to get the list of running VM guest. (WorldID, UUID...)

3. Type "esxcli vm process kill --type=soft -world-id=xxxxx"

     or "esxcli vm process kill --type=hard -world-id=xxxxx"

Learning CentOS

## command line呈現繁體中文
vi /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="zh_TW.Big5"

## 重啓服務
service xxx restart

## 閒置超過多久就自動登出
vi /etc/profile
export TMOUT=600 (單位為秒)

## 查詢系統版本
uname -a

## 查詢系統是幾位元的
getconf LONG_BIT

## 查詢輸入過的命令
history
history |more

## 清除所輸入過的指令紀錄
history -c

VMware Image

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