Hello,
I have VMware Player 3.1.5, 32 bit installed to 64 bit Windows 8.1.
I have a backup of a VM of Windows 98 SE which had loaded successfully using the same version of VMware Player on a now broken machine (that had run Windows 7 SP1).
When I try to run that VM using the same version of VM Player now installed to a Windows 8.1 PC notebook, I get the following error message:
"Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings.
If you were able to power on this virtual machine on this host computer in the past, try rebooting the host computer. Rebooting may allow you to use slightly more host memory to run virtual machines."
The host has 126 GB free on the hard drive in question and 16 GB of RAM.
The guest VM is set to 512 MB of RAM, and a hard disk current size 1.7 GB, with system free 126.9 GB, and with a maximum size of 8 GB.
I have tried:
rebooting the computer.
setting compatibility mode to treat the VMPlayer as running on Windows 7.
setting a higher RAM for the VM.
disabling the antivirus (Avast),
tried an earlier version of the VM that has significantly less installed to it,
but all these attempts did not resolve the problem, same error message, and I have since put the changed settings back to before they were changed.
While I appreciate the VMWare Player I have installed is somewhat an old version, I would be grateful for help in being able to successfully run the VM.
Regards,
Robert333.