This is vmware esx3.5. Today I found out the same mistake was made, with vmware snapshot not deleted for a very long time. Tried to delete the snapshot, but it timed out and after rebooting guest, I hit the same error as this one: http://sysadminhell.blogspot.com/2008/03/couple-of-vmware-issues.html. I followed the trick and killed vm, then started it up again. Got a snapshot named “Console Helper-1″. I tried to delete it again, it timed out again. It seems there is no way to see its progressing rate, the only way from vmware is:
This is vmware esx3.5. Today I found out the same mistake was made, with vmware snapshot not deleted for a very long time. Tried to delete the snapshot, but it timed out and after rebooting guest, I hit the same error as this one: http://sysadminhell.blogspot.com/2008/03/couple-of-vmware-issues.html. I followed the trick and killed vm, then started it up again. Got a snapshot named “Console Helper-1″. I tried to delete it again, it timed out again. It seems there is no way to see its progressing rate, the only way from vmware is:
watch -d “ls -touh –full-time *.vmdk” to just tell file modification timestamp changes for delta files.
(http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007566)
But it seems it is in the process of deleting snapshot still.
