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I have a standalone VMWare ESXi host on ESXi 5.1. It currently has a handful of VMs powered on, and they are running fine.

If I try to power on any other VM - any VM at all - I am receiving the following message:

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Power On virtual machine:A general system error occurred: The virtual machine could not start

I have been through everything on KB2001005 and KB1006232 and their steps are either not applicable, or don't change anything. Nothing is generated in the virtual machine's log file.

Where can I troubleshoot from here?

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There are a few steps to check... but the first thing to try is a restart of the management agents. Gain SSH access to your standalone host and run: /sbin/services.sh restart at the prompt.

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    Bam. That did the trick. I did do a restart from the powershell console, but doing it via SSH has fixed this problem. Hooray! Nov 4, 2013 at 21:54
  • It may also be related with VM Swap files location in case they are located on separate DS. And may be related on free space available in Datastores, including dedicated DS for VM Swap files. So change swap file location, check free space and availability for all DS and then run /sbin/services.sh restart.
    – BBK
    Aug 16, 2014 at 11:11

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