RAM Issue :-(

[ant2009]

Ladies & Gents,

I hope I can get some advise please.

Currently dealing with a demo version, I would like to test VSPhere at home with a desktop PC in the first place.

The PC specs are the following:

HP Pavilion t3719.uk / Vista Home premium 32bit / 4 GB RAM actually installed - The "Virtualization" option being enabled from the computer bios.

I installed Vmware Player 3 in order to create a new virtual machine containing the "VMvisor" file ("VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0.Update01-208167.x86_64")

Sadly, when I start the installation, the iso file initiates fine but stops a minute later, leaving the following notification:

Considering I upgraded my desktop to 4 GB RAM, I do not really understand why there are only 788MB found by VMWare.

Now, here is a capture of my PC System Information :

- Can anyone let me know what is going on with my system, and why I can't get the VMvisor installed properly please ?

Many thanks in anticipation,

Anthony

[AWo]

Welcome to the forums!

You need a 64 bit host for ESX(i) 4.

AWo

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[ant2009]

Thanks for your reply AWo

So you advise me to Install a x64 OS ?

I think I can do that !

I may come back later with other questions .... read on :smileycool:

Thank you again!

[AWo]

I meant that ESX(i) needs a 64 bit hardware. What do you want to do? Run ESX(i) in Player?

AWo

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[ant2009]

Correct.

And I am just about starting Windows7 x64installation.

I will keep you updated as soon as I possibly can.

[ant2009]

There we are Awo:

I installed windows7 x64 on my PC and installed VMWare Player v3.0.1

But I get pretty much the same error message, apart from I have a bit more free RAM than previously.

Please have a look at my new config:

And this is the new error messge I get :

Sadly, I still dont have 2048 Gb available to complete my Test .... what else can I do please?

Thanks alot!

[DSTAVERT]

Did you customize the virtual machine in Player and adjust the RAM size?

[ant2009]

DSTAVERT,

thanks for your post.

>>> Did you customize the virtual machine in Player and adjust the RAM size?

Yes I have, here is a capture of my VM settings :

As you can see, "only" 1 382 MB are actually available, but I think I should have significantly more.

So....still unable to test Vsphere

How do I free 2048 Mb on my system, please ????

Thank you!

[a_p_]

Check if there is a file named "config.ini" in "C:\Dokuments and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Player".

If not create one with the following entries:

.encoding = "windows-1252"

prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "FALSE"

prefvmx.allVMMemoryLimit = "2048"

If it exists, modify the last line to fit your needs.

André

[ant2009]

Hey André

Thanks for your reply.

The tip you gave me will be true for XP users.

But since I use Win7, the "config.ini" file name has changed to "preferences.ini" and will be found in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\VMware

This is how mine looks like :

.encoding = "windows-1252"

pref.eula.0.appName = "VMware Player"

pref.eula.0.buildNumber = "227600"

pref.usbDev.maxDevs = "0"

pref.keyboardAndMouse.maxProfiles = "0"

webUpdate.lastCheckTime = "1279303773"

vmWizard.installMediaType = "iso"

vmWizard.guestKey = "vmkernel"

vmWizard.mruISO0.isoLocation = "K:\VMWARE\VMWARE - VSPHERE\01 - HyperVisor\ESXi 4.0 Update 1 Installable (CD ISO)\VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0.Update01-208167.x86_64.iso"

pref.mruVM0.filename = "D:\ESX Server 4.0.vmx"

pref.mruVM0.displayname = "ESX Server 4.0"

pref.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "FALSE"

pref.allVMMemoryLimit = "2048"

Having said that, I'm now getting:

Not enough memory (2048 MB required, 1784 MB found)

Anyone ????

Thanks.

[a_p_]

The 2048 were just meant as an example. What if you set the value to e.g. 3072 ?

André

[ant2009]

André

Your method brought some improvement: VMware can now see 1784 MB available on my system, instead of 1384 previously.

However, this is still not sufficient to make it work :

I still need assistance, please.

Thanks.

[a_p_]

Interesting. I just tried it (on Windows XP).

After modifying the value in the config.ini (preferences.ini in your case) and restarting VMware Player, I am able to adjust the memory in the VM's settings up to the configured amount of RAM.

André