How do I kill a VMware virtual machine that won't die?

WMIC /OUTPUT:C:\ProcessList.txt PROCESS get Caption,Commandline,Processid

This will create a text file with each process and its parameters. You can search in the file for your VM File Path, and get the correct Process ID to end task with.

 

VMWare – Failed to lock the file - Cannot open the disk vmdlk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on

I face this issue when my VMWare could not open the virtual machine and was giving error: Failed to lock the file - Cannot open the disk *.vmdlk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

Cannot open the disk 'G:\VPC\WinXpPro\Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: Failed to lock the file.

Resolution: To solve this issue I opened the folder that has my virtual machine files ('G:\VPC\WinXpPro\). I found couple of folders that are named as ***.lck. I select them all and deleted them. You can also try to rename them if not comfortable with deleting them.

Windows XP Professional-000002.vmdk.lck
564df2d4-03de-04e8-d1c3-bd2d53dcb1b7.vmem.lck
Windows XP Professional.vmdk.lck
Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk.lck
Windows XP Professional.vmx.lck