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I installed VMWare workstation on my laptop, which has Windows 8 running on it. I got VMWare installed, after which I tried to install Red hat Linux as a guest OS.

But I get an error stating "not enough physical memory available to start this VM."

I tried allocating all more resources to get Linux installed and overcome the above error:

RAM - 2GB
DISK - 20GB

but still get the same error.

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    How much memory does your laptop have? Do you have other processes running on the host (Windows 8) that are taking up a lot of memory? Remember that Windows requires memory too, so even if your laptop has 2 GB of RAM, you won't be able to allocate all of that (maybe not even most of it) to a guest OS.
    – John Bensin
    Sep 20, 2013 at 18:44
  • 2gig ram it seems.
    – Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
    Sep 20, 2013 at 18:46
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    My laptop has 4GB RAM out of which i alloted 2GB to VMware
    – user256091
    Sep 20, 2013 at 18:58
  • You need to try to allocate less RAM to the VM, not more. Trying to allocate more RAM makes it more likely that the allocation will fail.
    – David Schwartz
    Sep 20, 2013 at 19:10
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    @user256091 What other processes do you have running? Can you open the Task Manager (press Ctrl+Shift+Esc), and in the performance tab, look at the graph of memory and tell us how much memory your system is currently using?
    – John Bensin
    Sep 20, 2013 at 19:20

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You probably need to run VMWare workstation as an administrator. Some Windows Updates have created this problem from time to time. Follow the first recommendation in this article: http://www.petri.com/fixing-enough-physical-memory-available-errors-vmware-workstation.htm

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    – Excellll
    Nov 13, 2014 at 21:09
  • I'm having the same problem with VMWare Player 4.0.6 on Win8.1/64 with 10GB of RAM, no visible application running, when trying to launch a 1GB Linux VM. Running as administrator helped, uninstalling KB2995388 didn't. I've not tried messing with config.ini.
    – Thomas S.
    Oct 1, 2015 at 11:10

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