VMWare Workstation and increased memory in host system

[petevick]

HI,

running Windows 7 64 bit, and just upgraded my system from 4gb memory to 6gb memory.

I couldn't start any of my VM's - getting an error "operation on file vmdk failed"

Anyone seen this before - problem with the memory possibly?

Thanks

Pete

[TomHowarth]

Peter

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[continuum]

interesting - post the vmware.log from that failed start please




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[petevick]

Hi

thanks for that - log is attached.

The telling line appears to be...

Mar 30 20:40:59.368: vcpu-1| AIOWIN32C: 'D:\VMWare\VMWare AcerDuo XP 2005\AcerDuo Windows XP Professional\AcerDuo Windows XP Professional.vmdk' : Failed to read: Insufficient quota to complete the requested service (1453).

Mar 30 20:40:59.473: vmx| VMXAIOMGR: Retry on read "D:\VMWare\VMWare AcerDuo XP 2005\AcerDuo Windows XP Professional\AcerDuo Windows XP Professional.vmdk" : Insufficient quota to complete the requested service.

I went back to 4gb memory instead of 6 and things work again

Thanks

Pete

[Scissor]

Perhaps this similar thread will help?

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1506444#1506444

[petevick]

Sorry - posted in other places this was fixed and forgot my original thread

Thanks

Pete