Virtual PC Memory Issue

I received the following error when loading a VPC image today:

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

I only needed 512MB, and my host has 2GB!  After some research, I came across a post blaming a running process named InCDsrv.exe.  InCDsrv.exe is an Ahead Nero system service set to autorun when InCD is installed. This process is called the InCD helper file which provides assistance with the InCD file system.

After stopping the service, the VPC image loaded fine.

Published Friday, March 25, 2005 10:16 AM by Palermo4
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# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Friday, March 25, 2005 1:25 PM by Matt
Oh you poor bastard. How did you ever cope?

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:57 AM by Michael Palermo
I didn't lose sleep over it.

Just wanted to share my solution in the event someone else has the same issue.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Monday, March 28, 2005 10:55 PM by Parker Fjeldberg
same problem strange thing was only showed up when 2 gigs of ram were installed no problems with 1 gig of ram (thought it was a MB board bios issues) any ways thanks for the solution

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Monday, April 04, 2005 5:38 AM by Royston Shufflebotham
I just got exactly the same problem on my machine today after upgrading to 2Gb, and doing a 'net stop incdsrv' did the trick - thanks very much!

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:43 PM by Lex
Thanks for sharing... it was driving me nuts. All that memory on no way to use it. Killed off said process and away we go.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:16 PM by Andre
Hi I don't have this service and I have the same problem. Do you have any other idea ? I check for other similar service, but no luck.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:23 PM by dotnetaddict
Holy crap...that fixed it. I installed a 1GB upgrade to my 1GB laptop today, and suddenly VPC crapped out and stopped working.

I stopped the InCD driver and it works like a charm! Thanks for the tip.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:02 PM by Eric Cosky
Thanks for sharing this info, it helped me out also.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:27 PM by Blue Lizard
I had a similar problem when I upgraded from 1GB to 2GB as well, but I don't have InCDSrv running on this machine. I had two MSDE (SQL Server) instances running, and when I stopped them, then Virtual PC loaded up the virtual machine just fine. I was able to restart the MSDE instances after VPC was already running. So this problem is not isolated to the InCDSrv service, other services can produce the same result on a machine with 2GB of RAM. I think this is a bug in Virtual PC.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:13 PM by Steve

Blue Lizard is correct. Stopping SQL server services will also fix the problem. Thanks for posting Michael.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:40 AM by VJ

I too agree.Blue Lizard is correct. Stopping SQL server services will also fix the problem. Thanks for sharing guys.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Monday, April 02, 2007 3:59 PM by JB

Wow - thanks man.  Not sure how you figured that out but it saved me a ton of frustration (imagine having all that RAM and not being able to use it)!

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:52 AM by Meir Michaeli

I have 2 GB without Nero or SQL. it's work after i stoped the Norton Client Anti virus!!!

Good Luck

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# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:13 PM by Naidu

Superp boss , I am not having a words to say for any thing else instead of Thanks...................Great

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Monday, November 26, 2007 2:31 PM by Berny During

THANKS A LOT !!! Your information saved me HOURS of painstakingly stopping services, and then checking if it runs. I only needed 300MB, and I have 2GB, and 1.6GB was available, so I knew it was a conflict, a quick Google search, your website, and 10 minutes later I'm sorted. Cheers...

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Monday, December 03, 2007 9:54 AM by Hagstrom

Had a similar problem, but with Roxios RecordNow CD burning software. Had to uninstall the dlactrlw.exe (the drag&drop CD support) and then everything worked just fine.

This blog got me in the right direction! Many thanks! :)

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:58 AM by David

Windows Update solved it in my case -- I wasn't running any unusual services.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:08 PM by Randeep

Thanks man... Really helped

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# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:40 AM by jabir

i am having the same problem "The virtual machine could not be started because there was not enough memory available on the host" i have 1GB ram and i didnt installed InCD.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:41 PM by Ben

I have 4G of Ram, I have stopped any and all of the above services, and still get the same error message. What next???

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:47 PM by MS

If nothing is working out try this :

Go to settings through VPC Console and reduce the allocated RAM and re try.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Sunday, September 14, 2008 8:02 PM by Suz

Thanks for this. I lowered the amount of allocated RAM and it worked! :)

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Friday, March 06, 2009 3:12 PM by Mr.Higby

You guys are all n00bs

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:14 AM by Geoff

Excellent tips. I lowered the RAM - and that sorted me out. This seriously saved me some frustration.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:05 PM by Dave

Nice posts here gang.  Thanks to Blue Lizard especially...My issue was also with the SQL instances.  I have multiple instances of SQL 2000 and 2005 on my machine.  Was getting the same message...stopped the SQL Services, and boom, I'm in w/o the message, and can start the SQL instances up again after it's running.

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:01 PM by saleem

reducing the RAM through the console did work

cheers for this

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Sunday, August 16, 2009 9:56 AM by person

well i have the same problem but theres no incd and it still does it!i can only run windows chicago and not my nt 4.0 and xp!

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Friday, September 11, 2009 12:32 AM by ashiena

Hye, Thank you for all of your post (Palermo4, and all commentor)..

# re: Virtual PC Memory Issue

Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:04 PM by Suresh

Yeah..Gr8

I have reduced the allocated RAM..Its working fine..Thanks a lot..

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:55 AM by Andrew

If you didn't found inCD service (if no installation of Nero) try to stop IP Helper service...this help me..

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