Enabling Guest OS Lock in UI on a powered on VM not possible

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

You want to enable Guest OS Lock while VM is powered on

Environment

VMware vSphere 8.0

VMware vSphere 7.0

 

 

 

 

Cause

VM is powered on and option to enable the Guest OS Lock is greyed out

Resolution

• For you to enable Guest OS Lock on a VM, VM needs to be powered off.

While trying to enable the mentioned setting on a powered on VM, the option is greyed out

While trying to enable the mentioned setting on a powered off VM, the option is available

 

OR

 

• If changing the value of parameter in VMX file  "tools.guest.desktop.autolock" to true, VM needs to be rebooted in order for configuration to be updated.