How do I set the eclipse.ini -vm option?

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cometta picture cometta · May 25, 2009 · Viewed 186.3k times · Source

I installed the Maven plugin for Eclipse, and then I got an error like below:

please make sure the -vm option in eclipse.ini is pointing to a JDK

How do I use the -vm option to point to my JDK in eclipse.ini?

Answer

cometta picture cometta · May 25, 2009

My solution is:

-vm
D:/work/Java/jdk1.6.0_13/bin/javaw.exe
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-framework
plugins\org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.3.R34x_v20081215-1030.jar
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m

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