How to solve could not create the virtual machine error of Java Virtual Machine Launcher?

Question

I am working on java wicket framework and Apache tomcat. Here I have Problem when i tried
to start tomcat it shows Java Virtual Machine Launcher pop window \"Could not c

Answer 1

On ubuntu (version 18), some application support java 8 and do not support java 11. If this is the case , you can switch to java 8 by following instruction on below topic : https://askubuntu.com/questions/1133216/downgrading-java-11-to-java-8

Answer 2

Install latest java jdk and your problem will be solved.

Answer 3

The error does not say much and lot of things can be wrong. One thing that was wrong in my case was following

-x.DargName=108352123

Which is clearly wrong and should have been

-Dx.argName=108352123

Answer 4

I was facing the same issue while i was using JDK 1.8.0_05 64 bit and eclipse-jee-oxygen-3a-win32-x86_64 on Windows 64 bit Operating System.

Finally i resolved the issue by changing JDK version jdk1.8.0_05 to jdk1.8.0_172

Answer 5

I was facing the same issue, I was using tomcat 8.5 with Java 10.Finally I installed Java 8(1.8.0_171) and it's working fine without any issues

Answer 6

Error:

sony@sony-VPCEH25EN:~$ java --version
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -javaagent:/usr/share/java/jayatanaag.jar 
Unrecognized option: --version
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Solution: Remove extra hyphen '-'

sony@sony-VPCEH25EN:~$ java -version
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -javaagent:/usr/share/java/jayatanaag.jar 
java version "1.8.0_101"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.101-b13, mixed mode)