Summary

Symptoms

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Cause

Resolution

1. Close the InstallAnywhere IDE.
2. Navigate to the main InstallAnywhere installation directory.
3. Open the InstallAnywhere.lax file in a text editor.
4. Find the following lines:

5. lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=[size]
   lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.max=[size]

6. Specify the new memory size, which should be appropriate for the available amount of system resources, in bytes.
7. Save the InstallAnywhere.lax file.
8. Open/launch the InstallAnywhere IDE.

1. Close the InstallAnywhere IDE.
2. Navigate to the main InstallAnywhere installation directory.
3. Show the package contents of the InstallAnywhere.app package
4. Open the Info.plist file with a text editor
5. Find the following items under the VMOptions key:

6. <string>-Xmx[size]</string>
   <string>-Xms[size]</string>
   

7. Specify the new memory size, which should be appropriate for the available amount of system resources.
8. Save the Info.plist file.
9. Open/launch the InstallAnywhere IDE.

1. Navigate to the main InstallAnywhere installation directory.
2. For Windows or Linux, open the build.lax file in a text editor. For Mac OS X, open the build.command.lax file in a text editor.
3. Find the following lines:

4. lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=[size]
   lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.max=[size]

5. Specify the new memory size, which should be appropriate for the available amount of system resources, in bytes.
6. Save the .lax file.
7. Run the command line build.

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