I’ve recently lost control of a VM that was stuck at 95% of a task. I waited and tried to regain control of the VM, nothing helped. This is how I got around it:
SSH into the ESX on which the VM is instantiated cat /proc/vmware/vm/*/names | grep <vm_name> note the vmid /proc/vmware/vm/<vmid>/cpu/status note the group vmid /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmkload_app -k 9 <group_vmid>
That’s it!