Ive searched for the last 2 hours trying to find a solution to my problem, with no luck.
My VM will not power on unless I reduce the RAM to 2038MB. I currently have 24 Gigs in this host, and about 5 gigs being used. I am running Workstation as an Admin.
I did recently Bitlocker encrypt the drive the VM is on but it will power on when I reduce it to 2038. I should have plenty of overhead available in the memory department.
How can I get the VM to power on with my allocated 4 or 6 GB of ram?
Workstation 10
Find the config.ini that is used on your system - reading a vmware.log will tell you the full path.
Set the 2 parameters as you see in the next 2 lines.
If those lines are not printed - add them manually.
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "25"
prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "FALSE"
Find the config.ini that is used on your system - reading a vmware.log will tell you the full path.
Set the 2 parameters as you see in the next 2 lines.
If those lines are not printed - add them manually.
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "25"
prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "FALSE"
Thank you! No idea what happened. Any idea what would cause this change out of no where?
I changed to prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "10" to allow for 6GB. At 25 it would only allow 4GB.
Thanks again.
Hi
thats is a known bug - it affects some folks only so it may be a bad interaction with 3rd party software.
Some users had to use even lower values ...
On my host I use "25" - but here it allows to assign about twice as much RAM as I actually have
Keep running in to this issue. I have still changed nothing on guest or host and keep having to change this:
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "25"
to
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "10"
to
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "5"
to
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "1"
Still getting the error, it keeps getting worse. Now telling me that I must lower my vm RAM to 978MB
So the amount of RAM required to power on, changes every single time I reboot my host. Any ideas? Its getting to the point I can't run this way anymore.
Do you have any 3rd party applications installed such as Antivirus, Games, USB-Lockdown suites, Firewalls ?
Anything that might interact badly ?
AVG - Doesnt matter if its disabled with services/processes ended.
I have more games than I can count, but nothing that should affect my VMs, or at least I cant comprehend how a game thats not running could.
Standard Windows Firewall.
The amount of RAM needed keeps moving all over the place. Sometimes its 900MB sometimes 3000.
I am wondering more about these settings:
http://i.imgur.com/SHFqswA.png
When I change this around, the amount of RAM needed changes. I had it set to allow for 10GB of RAM, and it wanted me to lower my VM to 1778MB. When I changed it to allow for 8192, it wanted the RAM lowered on the VM to 3888MB. None of this is making sense. I dislike being able to find a pattern.
Next option might be to reinstall Workstation.
>I have more games than I can count, but nothing that should affect my VMs, or at least I cant comprehend how a game thats not running could.
Some games have anti-piracy- "features" that interact badly with Workstation. Even if they are not running
Uninstall/Reinstall of Workstation fixed it.