VMware 6.0 on Linux Memory Allocation Issue
August 21st, 2008
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This is just a quick note to let you know that Linux version of VMware 6.0 will not give you a warning message when you set a size of memory for a virtual machine higher than what your host has installed.
So, when you start that virtual machine
- your host Linux OS will get hung
- your vm will show “Unable to load profile …” error (assuming it runs Windows OS)
- and you probably will have to “cold-boot” your box
What led me to this outrageous experiment was the fact that Gnome Monitor was not showing reduction in RAM when I was running a virtual machine. Initially I thought that VMware was not using the host’s RAM at all creating a large page file instead. So, I bumped up the vm RAM beyond the physical RAM on host and it soon showed up.
Thanks for reading.
Categories: Linux