VMWare Workstation 10/11 Windows 7 not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine

[excitenetworks]

Workstation 10.0.4

Win7 x64 SP1

32GB RAM

Asus Z87-Pro  (Intel Virtualization enabled, memory scrambler/remap disabled)

Intel 4770K

Images of error and free memory in Windows:

http://i.imgur.com/4CD46eo.png

http://i.imgur.com/yWtMGap.png

http://i.imgur.com/PlWxDby.png

Problem:

• Using more than 2.8G of RAM when allowing most memory to be swapped gives an error about not enough memory available.
• I am able to boot up if I limit one VM to 2.8GB RAM and enable swap most.  The VM will eventually stall if I attempt to use all 2.8GB requiring force close of vmware-vmx.exe.
• I can't use the options to allocate all or swap some memory at all

Setting allocate all memory:

http://i.imgur.com/KVWGSg9.png

Allowing some memory to be swapped:

http://i.imgur.com/8Ha9MZ2.png

Allowing most memory to me swapped:

http://i.imgur.com/zyhS8to.png

Steps tried to resolve:

• Uninstall/Reinstall did not fix,   /clean did not fix either
• Workstation 11 beta gives same error
• Run as Administrator
• Tried config.ini   vmmon.disableHostParameters = “TRUE”

[wila]

Hello,

Probably something else, but ..

excitenetworks wrote:

Steps tried to resolve:

• Uninstall/Reinstall did not fix,   /clean did not fix either
• Workstation 11 beta gives same error
• Run as Administrator
• Tried config.ini   vmmon.disableHostParameters = “TRUE”

With the config.ini have you been careful with the quote symbol to use normal quotes "TRUE" and not the fancy quotes as in your post above?

As you already tried config.ini setting above you most likely have read the notes here already, but am linking it for others bumping into thread.

Also note that you might have to reboot after adding the config.ini file.

PS: There is no fix for this issue in Workstation 11 beta, so if installed for addressing this issue then it is expected as the fix will come with Workstation 11 release.

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Wil

[excitenetworks]

I retried disablehostparameters and it no longer says not enough physical memory available.  It is now giving another error about unable to allocate locked memory.