On Saturday 16 November 2002 12:15 pm, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> But then it says 'The virtual machine is unable
> to reserve memory'.
>
> My reach machine has 256M (there's some hardware problem trying to
> install more RAM; that's a separate issue), and the virtual machine is
> configured for 96M.  I'm running as root with the following:

You can configure VMware to ignore its memory limits.  Start it, then choose 
"Settings" from the tool bar and select "Reserved Memory".  The dialog box 
that pops up will tell you a lot of stuff about memory usage (mostly targeted 
at folks who haven't hacked on OSes :-) ) and has an "Enable memory limits" 
checkbox.  Uncheck it, shut VMware down and start it back up.  Reserved 
memory shouldn't be an issue for you any more.  Of course, performance may 
suffer, but that's just a paging/swapping/etc. problem like in any virtual 
memory environment.
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