"Not enough physical memory available error" while opening VM instance on Windows8.1
It shows insufficient memory even if there is sufficient memory available. The culprit seems to be the windows update installed: K2995388.
Possible solutions
- Uninstall K2995388 Windows update (Worked for some but didnt work for me)
- Logged in as an administrator and changed the config.ini file under c:/programdata/VMware/VMwarePlayer and added:
vmmon.disableHostParameters = "TRUE"
note 1. make sure to type it in rather than copy paste from this link coz it may reformat the quotes around TRUE & give an error while starting the vm along with "insufficent memory .."
note 2. If you don't have permissions to save the changes to config.ini on this folder (i didn't..even though I had full access), save it to documents folder & try to copy/paste it back into this folder
- Copied (overwrote) the changed config.ini file to the following locations:
c:/ProgramData/VMware/VmWareWorkstation
c:/ProgramFiles (x86)/VMware/VMwarePlayer
c:/users/my name/AppData/Roaming/VMWare
- Restarted my machine & VMPlayer. It finally worked!! Hope this helps!