🔴Common errors

This page will explain some of the most displayed errors in UTM.

Error trying to restore removable drives: Failed to access drive image path.

Reason: A previously set removable drive path has been moved, edited or deleted.

Solution: Simply eject the image in any connected removable drive, by clicking "CD/DVD" and "Clear" (or Browse if you want to replace/fix the drive)

How to eject a removable drive: step-by-step

QEMU exited from an error: qemu-system: cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate memory

Reason: The amount of RAM set is too large for your system to run it.

Solution: Try to turn down the amount of RAM you allocated to your VM.

On a Mac system, you can click the Apple logo in the top right, then About this computer, and see how much RAM your computer has. It is reccomended to use at least half your system's RAM, and more if possible.

On an iOS/iPadOS device, you may not use more than half it's RAM or else iOS will kill UTM. To find out how much RAM you device has, you can search it up on your favourite search engine. (example: "iPad Pro 11" 3rd generation RAM")

How to turn down the amount of RAM a VM uses: step 1
How to turn down the amount of RAM a VM uses: step 2
How to turn down the amount of RAM a VM uses: step 3

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