Eclipse neon "Could not create the JVM"

Question

We are setting up eclipse neon on Java 1.7 and it fails to start showing a popup with message

Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Here is configuration in eclipse.ini

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.201.v20161025-1711.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.401.v20161122-1740
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-XX:+UseStringDeduplication
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m

Eclipse Neon requires Java 8, it will not run on any lower version. You can use Java 7 to run programs from within Eclipse, but Eclipse itself **must** use Java 8. — greg-449, Feb 28 '17 at 21:39

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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I found this answer helpful. I was getting this error even after using java 8, So just delete eclipse.ini file, but backup first.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered May 01 '17 at 06:22

Himanshu Bhandari

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 28 '17 at 03:54

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As of Eclipse Platform 4.6, and the Neon release, a Java 8 (or later) JRE or JDK is required to run Eclipse.

edited Apr 28 '17 at 03:54

Nathan Tuggy

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answered Apr 28 '17 at 03:13

Vijeta Mehra

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 16 '17 at 12:38

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There is chance that the current eclipse you have was not completely downloaded. Try downloading again and try the set up again.

answered Aug 16 '17 at 12:38

B.K

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '17 at 14:49

I received this error after upgrading from neon.2 to neon.3. Since Eclipse is ever-changing, what worked last year may not work today. My experience has shown the VM args to usually be the culprit in this situation, so my solution was to remove the -vmargs section of my eclipse.ini file and then restart Eclipse.

In my case it started correctly, so I added the VM args back one at a time until it failed. The source of my startup problems this time was -XX:+UseParallelGC. After some research I swapped it out for -XX:+UseG1GC and now I'm back in business.

By default, eclipse 2019-12 is using `-XX:+UseG1GC`. If i add `-XX:+UseParallelGC`, the error "Could not create JVM blabla" is thrown. — jumping_monkey, Jan 21 '20 at 04:05

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 19 '18 at 15:21

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Download and install JRE version 8, as it's required by Eclipse.

edited Jan 19 '18 at 15:21

Cedric Reichenbach

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answered Jan 19 '18 at 09:26

farhan Habib

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 23 '19 at 03:21

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i just deleted the eclipse.ini then it worked like a charm

answered Apr 23 '19 at 03:21

Jemuel Abrian

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Thanks for your answer. – Sachin Thapa Jun 12 '19 at 21:10

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 07 '18 at 07:01

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just add your jdk path on the top of your init file as below.

-vm

C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_71/bin/javaw

answered Jun 07 '18 at 07:01

Kalaivani Sivasami

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this may your file path may not work to him, so tell to add the javaw path like this :) – janith1024 Jun 07 '18 at 07:05

Eclipse neon "Could not create the JVM"

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