[CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Mon Jan 20 06:23:59 UTC 2014
On 1/19/2014 10:17 PM, Hersh Parikh wrote:
> I am running VMware player on CentOS 5.4 and its working fine. However it does not allow me to increase the RAM more than 3GB. It keeps throwing error stating- "Requested memory size is greater than allowed maximum of 3072 MB. Could not initiate memory hot plug."
>
> I understand from few threads that 32bit OS has this kind of limitation but I am able to understand why I am seeing this issue when I am using 64bit OS and VMware player is also for 64bit.
I'd say, use virtualbox instead of vmware player.
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