Can not create java virtual machine popup message in eclipse

Question

I want to log the GC details and added following VM argument in eclipse:

-verbose:gc 
-XX:+PrintGCDetails
-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
-Xmx768M 

Now when I launch the application I get an error dialog that states "can not create java virtual machine".

What is the problem?

Solution

The following link explains how to supply VM arguments in eclipse.

Now when I launch the application I get an error dialog that states "can not create java virtual machine".

There could be quite a few reasons for this. One common one is that eclipse cant find the java executable. You can open the eclipse.ini file and add:

-vm
 /opt/jdk/bin/javaw.exe 

You should replace the above path with the path of your executable.