Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine, VMware

I have VMware Workstation 14 installed in Ubuntu 16.04. I created a new Fedora virtual machine allotting 1 GB RAM. I have 2 GB free available RAM and 4 GB free swap memory, but when i power on machine then it shows me error.

Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings. It is possible that native applications and/or services have locked down memory which could be preventing the virtual machine from launching. Shutting down unnecessary applications or services may free enough memory to launch this virtual machine. 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.

I tried windows 7 and other operating systems too by increasing or decreasing allocated RAM size, restarting the host machine but got same error. But when i install VMware Workstation 12 it works fine. I am facing problem with VMware Workstation 14.

Any solution ?

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2 Answers

I fixed it based on this post by izznogooood:

sudo sucd /tmp
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar .
tar xf vmmon.tar
rm vmmon.tar
wget
mv -f hostif.c vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c
tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
rm -fr vmmon-only
mv -f vmmon.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar
vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Another tip you should follow if you run intels onboard graphics is to enable 3D accelleration (adjust GFX memory to the guest machine accordingly) like a 7500U cpu is more than powerful enough for that. VMware does not allow this by default.

add:

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE

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Since newer version of ubuntu do not use swap partitions anymore,

Just make a bigger swap file:

1. Make all swap off

sudo swapoff -a

2. Resize the swapfile

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=8192

3. Make swapfile usable

sudo mkswap /swapfile

4.Make swapon again

sudo swapon /swapfile

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