A colleague send me a Linux VM that he built on a machine with a lot more physical memory than the 4 GB I have in my Macbook Air. When I started the VM in Fusion, it said that the VM required more physical memory than I had available and suggested that it would reduce the memory for the VM to about 3 GB. I said OK and the machine started. I did a bunch of work in that VM. I suspended the VM because I needed to recover some of the memory it was using for another application.
When I try to start the VM now, it says that it requires 4 GB of memory and that I should stop some applications or reboot to free the required memory. I have tried both with no success.
Why wasn't the 3GB setting saved when I suspended the VM?
Since I can't change the memory requirement for the VM until it is properly shut down and since I can't shut down the VM without unsuspending it, I suspect the VM is toast.
Is there any way to recover the VM?
