RTFAL!
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
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Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup nomount ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system SQL> [/sourcecode]