How to fix Eclipse Java Virtual Machine Launcher Error?

Question

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 th

Answer 1

Ok, so after a bit of digging, I managed to fix the problem. In eclipse, I went to Windows>Preferences>Java>Installed JREs>Execution Enviorments>JavaSE-1.8>Compatible JREs>jre1.8.0_65(perfect match). I have no idea why or how that changed, (or why it worked) but hey, I'm not complaining. For anyone else with the same issue, first do everything I said in the question body, then try this. It hopefully will work for you too.

EDIT: I just figured out the cause of the issue as well. I opened the workspace on another computer (my workspace is on a shared drive) running java 1.8.0_60 while this computer is running java 1.8.0_65. Obviously, eclipse had to change the version therefore causing problems.

Answer 2

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"