This is a note-to-self really. When playing around with Oracle and something’s not working - RTFAL: Read The Flippin Alert Log! After resizing a VM I was getting this problem: [sourcecode] [oracle@RNMVM01 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sat Apr 24 17:44:44 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup nomount ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system SQL> [/sourcecode]