[CentOS] VMware restricting to 3GB RAM

Mon Jan 20 09:36:58 UTC 2014
Fabrizio Di Carlo <dicarlo.fabrizio at gmail.com>

Hi Hersh,

to know hardware version you can use this table:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003746

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Hersh Parikh <hershparikh12 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Host has 128GB RAM and its running CentOS 5.4 64 bit architect,
> Guest is 64 bit ubuntu 12.04,
> VMware Player I am using is 6.1
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> @Luigi- I have seen this thread and I have a Q around this. How do I know what hardware(e.g. 10/9/8) do I have?
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> Regards
> Hersh
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> On Monday, 20 January 2014 12:16 PM, Luigi Rosa <lists at luigirosa.com> wrote:
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> Hersh Parikh said the following on 20/01/2014 07:17:
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>> 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."
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>> 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.
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> Check this VMware article and see if you fall within the limitations described:
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> Virtual machine memory limits and hardware versions (1014006)
> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014006
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> Ciao,
> luigi
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