eclipse won't start - no java virtual machine was found

Question

Eclipse was running fine yesterday (and has been since I installed it about a year ago). Now all the sudden I\'m getting the following error on startup:

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Answer 1

Two ways to work around this .

• Recommended way : In your eclipse.ini file make sure you are pointing -vm to your jdk installation. More on this here. Make sure to add -vm before the -vmargs section.

• Pass in the vm flag from command line. http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_run_Eclipse%3F#Find_the_JVM

Note : Eclipse DOES NOT consult the JAVA_HOME environment variable.