Vista - Not enough memory?

I am using Windows XP.

I tried running a copy of Windows 98. I got the error message below.

"The virtual vachine could not be started because there was not enough
memory available on the host."

There is no way that this is correct. I have enough memory to running
the latest demanding computer games. Also, I tried to reboot and then
just run Virtual PC without running any other software. I still got
the message above.

What can be the problem?

"Rich" <richmarin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Difficult to say unless you tell the newsgroup:

1) how much physical RAM the host has

2) how much of it you have allocated to the guest


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On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:29:10 -0700 (PDT), Rich
<richmarin@xxxxxx> wrote:
Do you have Nero installed? If so, that's the likely culprit. Update
to the newest version.

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"Steve Jain [MVP]" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message
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I thought about that but didn't mention it because I thought this had been
fixed for ages, so didn't consider that the OP might still be using such an
old version.

IIRC, it's specifically the InCD module, right...?


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On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:33:12 +0100, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<mark@xxxxxx> wrote:
Yep, InCD...I couldn't remember that part though.

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Steve Jain [MVP] wrote:Yeah, but "newest version" is a bit cruel, don't you think? <g>
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On Jul 5, 8:02*am, "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m...@xxxxxx> wrote:1.) I have 2.75 GB of RAM

2.) I am not sure. But if you mean how much did I give the Virtual PC,
then it was about 75%.

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:34:02 -0700 (PDT), Rich
<richmarin@xxxxxx> wrote:
2.75 * 0.75 = 2.06 Gb
Probably *way too much* for Win98!
Try reducing its RAM to 100 Mb or even less and try again.
When Win98 was current 100 Mb RAM was a huge amount and I think that
the OS itself has a calculation limit that is less than 2 Gb.
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"Rich" <richmarin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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1.) I have 2.75 GB of RAM

When you create a new virtual machine, one of the questions that the
creation wizard asks you is how much RAM you want to allocate to it. You
specify this value as a number, not a percentage, either by typing it
directly or by using the slider control.

Windows 98 has a minimum memory requirement of 16MB, and Microsoft recommend
24MB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182751

Allocating any more than 32MB to a Windows 98 virtual machine is just a
waste of your host's resources...

If you really have allocated 75% of your host's RAM to this virtual machine,
then you'll have reduced the host's memory to around 650MB!


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ASP.NET MVP
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In message <#7GZUU5AKHA.1380@xxxxxx> "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<mark@xxxxxx> was claimed to have wrote:
That might be true if all you do is run Windows 98, but don't install
any apps. If you use any applications in said Windows 98 install then
you should set the limit more appropriately, but staying under 512MB to
avoid the VCache bug (and/or workaround the problem per KB253912)

You can run Windows 98 with 32MB of memory, but it's a fairly painful
experience.