vmware memory problems.

[Ashleyyyy]

my vmware 14 workstation pro is acting really weird. on both my pc and laptop, i constantly get errors. 

i'm trying to run a Windows 10 vm with 2 threads and 2 gb of ram allocated. 

 

the errors about not being able to reserve memory or there not being enough physical memory on the machine. 

however my laptop had about 4 gb free, and my pc about 8gb when i tested it. 

 

i read about this being an issue with newer versions of ubuntu (i'm on 17.10), but i'm not sure. 

and the stupid thing is that i need ubuntu 17.10 because 16.04's kernel is old, and my laptop has issues with it because of drivers. 

 

anyone know a solution?

 

EDIT: i should add, virtualbox works fine. 

[five potatoes]

Try to give it a lower amount, and see if it works, if it does then you did not have enough FREE ram. If it doesn't that is an entire differnt story.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, five potatoes said:

Try to give it a lower amount, and see if it works, if it does then you did not have enough FREE ram. If it doesn't that is an entire differnt story.

The OP said he has enough free RAM. Have you reinstalled the program?

[five potatoes]

I guess I read over that.

[Ashleyyyy]

12 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The OP said he has enough free RAM. Have you reinstalled the program?

a bunch of times. this also happened on a manjaro install that i was testing with, but i thought that was because Arch can be difficult for no reason sometimes. 

 

EDIT: i also tried it with 1gb and still nope...