VM Problem.

Question

Hello, Recently I downloaded Windows 11 iso and added it to my VM, but when pressing the power button, it reveals this message:

"Could not create anonymous paging file for 4096 MB: The paging file is too small for this operation to complete.

Failed to allocate main memory.

Module 'MainMem' power on failed.

Failed to start the virtual machine."

I need help with this.

Answer 1

here it is

Answer 2

You already have 6.8 in use for all current processes running.

It won't be able to free up almost 3GB to run a VM and also to run it smoothly. Even if you manage to run it you might encounter freezing or crashing as there won't be any RAM left to process.

You can try the page file size that I recommended in the first message but I see slight chances this will run.

Modern day Windows requires a minimum 16 GB RAM especially if you want to run VMs, modern games, other high RAM usage apps.

Answer 3

i tried it but it ran into more problems

Answer 4

I understand.

You should then restore it back to set automatically as it was originally. I'm not too familiar with VMware setup but if you have the option to run it as 2GB try that.

But even so chances are it won't run smoothly.