Monday, April 8, 2013

VMware vSphere Error starting virtual machine

Starting a Virtual Machine on vSphere 5.1 got below error: 




























Failed to power on VM.
Could not power on VM : Admission check failed for memory resource See the VMware ESX Resource Management Guide for information on resource management settings. 
SharedArea: Unable to find 'testSharedAreaPtr' in SHARED_PER_VM_VMX area. 
Using hardware virtualization with a software MMU. 
This host does not support EPT.  

Solution:
check memory size on VM on whether GB or MB is correct. I chose 1024 GB instead of 1024MB




1 comment:

  1. I also ran into this issue when I had set conflicting resource pool reservations which stopped the machine from being able to get the amount of memory requested (because another resource pool had a reservation which was too high).

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