Hi,
I'm using Workstation 8.0.5 on a Windows 7 Enterprise host, on which I have 16GB of physical memory installed.
My reserved memory settings in Edit --> Preferences --> Memory is set to 12076MB and I have the 'Allow some virtual machine memory to be swapped' radio button checked.
I'm trying to start a 64-bit CentOS VM image, for which I have set the allocated memory to 8GB. My host task manager shows I have 10GB of physical memory currently available.
When I try to power on I get the message:
"Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings.
So it seems to think I have less than 4233MB available to all VMs, when I have actually set this to about 12GB in the Workstation settings.
Any idea what's going on?
Cheers.
Hi,
Make sure that all other VMs are off , adjust the RAM to 5512 Mb as suggested and try.
Yes, that all works fine, and is what I've had to do up to now.
I tried setting the Windows registry entries for PreFetch and SuperFetch, but that didn't seem to help.
I also tried creating a config.ini file with vmmon.disableHostParameters = TRUE which did allow me to start a VM with 8GB of RAM, but then caused a core dump with this message:
Having same issue - see http://communities.vmware.com/message/1998908.
Workaround is to add following into config.ini.
prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "FALSE"
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "0"
Hi
I had the same issue. Spend a lot of time to fix it to run 2 linux VMs but no luck
but finally found!
Disable or Uninstall Prio. See https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11039 - it was my case. 2nd VM has started to work