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2 Replies Last post: May 20, 2007 6:43 AM by KevinG

Failed to allocate page for guest RAM! posted: May 15, 2007 11:39 AM

PremekTP

2 posts since
May 15, 2007

Hi!

I would like to run Windows XP guest on my Fedora system, but
I got this strange message and vmplayer crash down immediately after opening .vmx file.

My operating system is Fedora 6 x86_64, kernel 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6, computer has 1024MB RAM totally. I have checked free space on filesystem "/" containing /tmp directory, I have over 6GB free space here.

Guest OS is Windows XP SP2, memsize for virtual machine is set to 512MB. Guest image is located on drive with more than 7 GB free space. Image was created on Windows, nevertheless it was perfectly running on my previous linux installation (Fedora 4 32bit) .

VMPLAYER version: 2.0 (build 45731), I have downloaded official VMware Player 2.0 - 64-bit (.tar) package from vmware.com site. I tried to run vmplayer both with common user and with root account with same result.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you a lot.

Premek Vihan

Re: Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!

1. May 19, 2007 1:50 PM

in response to: PremekTP

PremekTP

2 posts since
May 15, 2007

Solved. Problem was "ntfs-3g bug", virtual machine could not start from NTFS partition.

Here is "workaround": http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#vmware

It works fine now.