How to fix Eclipse Java Virtual Machine Launcher Error?

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Ashwin Gupta picture Ashwin Gupta · Oct 25, 2015 · Viewed 27.1k times · Source

So like the title says, Im having an issue with eclipse JVM launcher. Last night, everything was working fine, as far as I know, nothing at all has changed on my pc since then. However, I woke up this morning to find that when I run any of my projects in eclipse I recive this error: Java Virtual Machine Launcher- Error: could not open C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_60\lib\amd6jvm.cfg

I have already verified the integrity of my Path variable, (C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_65\bin) Now at this point, you may notice, my jdk is on version 65. So is my JRE and java installation. I dont understand why eclipse is using jre 60. I also checked the preferences and changed the jre version too 65. No luck. Furthermore, I ran a simple java file without using eclipse through the command line and that ran/compiled just fine. I tried adding the -vm tag (It didn't already exist there) to eclipse.ini and setting it too the jvm but it didn't help. (I than removed it) I have no idea what to do... Please help, I've tried everything I know how to do. Thanks!

EDIT:

My eclipse.ini file below: 

-startup
../../../.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.100.v20150511-1540.jar
--launcher.library
../../../.p2/pool/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.300.v20150602-1417
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-install
C:/Users/Sanjiv/eclipse/java-mars/eclipse
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
-Doomph.update.url=http://download.eclipse.org/oomph/updates/milestone/latest
-Doomph.redirection.index.redirection=index:/->http://git.eclipse.org/c/oomph/org.eclipse.oomph.git/plain/setups/

EDIT 2 I have already tried reinstalling java, eclipse and jdk.

Answer

Deepika picture Deepika · Nov 9, 2017

For windows user, if your getting this error:

Java Virtual Machine Launcher- Error: could not open C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_60\lib\amd6jvm.cfg

it indicates there is no jre1.8.0_60 version in your system. So you need to set the JRE version which is already there in our system by executing the below command:

  1. Go to cmd prompt
  2. go to the eclipse folder (which you have installed) by executing: cd eclipse-folder-path

  3. execute below command: eclipse -vm jre_path
    ex:

    eclipse -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131\jre\bin\javaw"

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