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title: "VMware vSphere In-Guest Processes"
description: "You can view and control processes currently running inside a VM or vCenter Server. For Windows-based machines, you can view, end or restart processes. For Linux-based machines, you can view or end daemons."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/userguide/vsphere_processes.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > VMware vSphere Monitoring > VMware vSphere In-Guest Processes"
dateModified: "2026-10-23"
---

# VMware vSphere In-Guest Processes

You can view and control processes currently running inside a VM or vCenter Server.

- For Windows-based machines, you can view, end or restart processes.
- For Linux-based machines, you can view or end daemons.

## Prerequisites

Before viewing in-guest processes, check the following prerequisites:

- Make sure that VMware Tools are installed.
- For Linux-based machines, make sure that the SSH Server is started.
- For Windows based machines make sure:

  - The Remote Registry service is *Enabled* and *Started*.
  - The Local Policy *Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon* is enabled.
  - Make sure that the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) can be resolved by the Veeam ONE server.

## Viewing In-Guest Processes

To view the list of processes:

1. Open Veeam ONE Client.

   For details, see [Accessing Veeam ONE Components](access.md).

2. At the bottom of the inventory pane, click **Virtual Infrastructure**.
3. In the inventory pane, select the necessary infrastructure object.
4. Open the **Guest OS** tab and navigate to **Processes**.
5. Provide OS authentication credentials (user name and password) to access the list of running processes.


Every process is described with a set of counters that are presented as column headings. You can add or remove counters to monitor running processes:

1. In the upper right corner of the **Processes** dashboard, click the **Select Columns** link.
2. In the **Select Columns** window, select check boxes next to counters you want to display.
3. To view the detailed description of a counter, click it in the **Counters** list. The description will be displayed in the lower pane of the window.

[![In-Guest Processes](images/select_columns.png "In-Guest Processes")](images/select_columns.png){.toggle scale=70}

You can end unwanted processes running on the VM or create an alarm based on the process state or object performance:

- [For Windows-based machines] To end a process, select it in the list and click the **Kill Process** button, or right-click a necessary process and select **Kill Process** from the shortcut menu.
- [For Linux-based machines] To end a daemon, select it in the list and click the **Kill Process** button and choose one of the following options:

  - **Hangup** — to send the `SIGHUP` signal
  - **Kill** — to send the `SIGKILL` signal
  - **Terminate** — to send the `SIGTERM` signal

  You can also right-click a necessary process and select **Kill Process** and choose the necessary option from the shortcut menu.

- [For Windows-based machines] To create an alarm, select one or more processes in the list, click the **Create Alarm** button, and select the type of rule on which the alarm must be based. For details on alarm rules, see [Alarm Rules](rules.md).