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calc76
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Enthusiast

Not enough physical memory is available

Anyone else get this message after upgrading to 14.0.0? I'm running Workstation under Linux host and never saw this issue before then.

I had to reboot even though 31GB was free at the time.

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devastator21
Contributor
Contributor

Worked for me on 4.13.0-26-generic kernel on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.  THANKS!

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infiniter
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I became curious when I read the thread title. Exactly the same problem in all previous versions of the Player and/or Workstation I used. Windows 7, 16 GB of RAM and you could never select more than 4 GB for a machine. Why would vmware limit the max. allocatable memory to only 1/4?? Doesn't make sense to me.

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Wodan
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I have build a patch for this which applies the fix above and should be run on the extracted archive.

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michail1991
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Works beautifully for Ubuntu 16.04 with VMware workstation 14 Pro.
THanks for the fix.

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Mongo424242
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Enthusiast

Thanks to all who contributed to this fix!  I have a somewhat different problem, in that with Kernel version 4.13, Workstation will not even compile VMnet (?), so I can't open any VMs in the fist place.  Does this fix also address the kernel compatibility problem?  I know there are other patches out there for the kernel bug, but how to they relate to this patch (if at all)?  Thanks!

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Wodan
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Do you mean the issue relating to vmnet not being able to be build as a kernel module after installation? If so a patch was released earlier for:

vmnet-only/bridge.c

I don't remember where this was posted, but the patch that was released is in the attachment. I hope this helps.

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comahony
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi,

Issue is fixed in VMware Workstation Player 14.1.1.

Regards,

Alin

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AleksandrasJ
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Contributor

Awesome! Thanks!

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