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Windows 2003 Enterprise Virtual Machines with Memory Configurations Higher Than the Host on which They Reside Are Slow to Boot

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A virtual machine configured with Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition as the guest operating system is slow to boot whenever the host has a smaller amount of free physical memory than the physical memory configured for that virtual machine. This can happen when the host system memory is either over-committed or when powering on the virtual machine over-commits the system. This situation can also happen in cases when the virtual machine is configured with greater physical memory than what is available on the host (for example, 16GB virtual memory on a 8GB host).

Solution

There is no workaround.

Keywords

virtual machine memory

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  • KB Article: 1003112
  • Updated: Aug 14, 2009
  • Products:
    VMware ESX
    VMware VirtualCenter
  • Product Versions:
    VMware ESX 3.5.x
    VMware ESXi 3.5.x Embedded
    VMware ESXi 3.5.x Installable
    VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.x