Not enough memory to start VM

[Nikolai Stenfors]

Hello Qubes-users,

I've made a fresh standard installation of Qubes OS on a Lenovo SL510 with 220 GB memory. A reclaimed all disk memory during the installation to whipe out my previous Debian installation.
However, whatever I do, for instance open firefox on my personal VM, I get the message "Not enough memory to start VM. Close on or more running VMs...."

Could somebody give my some step-by-step instructions on how to solve my problem?

/N

[lok...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, 17 June 2017 18:38:10 UTC+8, Nikolai Stenfors wrote:
> Hello Qubes-users,
>
> I've made a fresh standard installation of Qubes OS on a Lenovo SL510 with
> 220 GB memory. A reclaimed all disk memory during the installation to whipe
> out my previous Debian installation.
> However, whatever I do, for instance open firefox on my personal VM, I get
> the message "Not enough memory to start VM. Close on or more running VMs...."

Your computer doesn't have 220 GB of memory. You have 220 GB of disk space. Assuming your computer is the Lenovo X220, you probably only have 4 GB of memory in this machine, as this was the amount the machine was sold with back when it came out.

Unfortunately, 4 GB will not get you very far with Qubes. You can do wotk with 8, but you really need 16.

> Could somebody give my some step-by-step instructions on how to solve my problem?

I've googled a bit, and it seems as though the X220 supports up to 16 GB, so the solution for you is to buy a memory upgrade. It should be reasonably cheap.

[Nikolai Stenfors]

OK, my mistake...
But "free -ht" gives:
mem 1.2G (119M free)
swap 9.4G (9,4G free)

/N

[Nikolai Stenfors]

... and I assume the large swap is not of any use. /N