Specified VM install not found: type Standard VM, name jre7

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Shanewaj picture Shanewaj · Jan 23, 2014 · Viewed 67.9k times · Source

Specified VM install not found: type Standard VM, name jre7 Have you ever encountered this problem in Eclipse while building an ant file? Then this article is for you. Deleting and recreating the workspace is not the solution. There is an easy solution to fix this issue without recreating the workspace.

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Answer

Kundan Atre picture Kundan Atre · Oct 15, 2014
  1. Right Click on build.xml
  2. Go to "Run As" >> "External Tools Configurations..."
  3. It shall open new window
  4. Go to JRE tab
  5. Select proper JRE if missing (sometimes jre tabs shows error mark on that.)

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