My VMware workstation occasionally gives me "not enough physical memory available to start this VM" when I have 2-3GB assigned to my VM and in my preferences I have 6GB ram for all my VMs and my total physical RAM is 8GB. It worked before but the VM occasionally freezes or so and now it gives me this error!? When I reduce the memory I can start my VM but I is this a common error? My memory works fine!?
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Are you sure your not overstepping into your host OS ram too much? Leaving just 2GB for the host OS is a pretty small amount.– EnigmaNov 6, 2014 at 20:24
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I suspect it's some error with VMware. It works before and 6GB is the maximum the VMWare tool allows me, so no. I don't think it's the problem!– MicromegaNov 6, 2014 at 20:32
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Windows is usually meant to empower and not to restrict. As such you could very well do something you shouldn't but that does not justify it as a viable action. Likewise, just because it has worked, doesn't mean it should have worked or even let you do it. If you exit VMWare, how much memory is your OS using? The error implies that you are attempting to use more physical memory than you should be using.– EnigmaNov 6, 2014 at 20:40
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With VLC and my browser W uses 24% from my 8GB, its about 6GB free!?– MicromegaNov 6, 2014 at 20:47
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The amount VMware allows is configurable, so that’s not a good indicator.– Daniel BNov 7, 2014 at 6:52
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This is a bug in Version 10.0.3 under Windows 8.1 after installing the october update rollup for Windows 8.1. The issue is fixed in Version 10.0.4.
answered Nov 7, 2014 at 4:52
