Hello Guys, How are you all? Hope You all Are Fine. Today I just installed Eclipse And As I restarted the IDE Eclipse would not start. Instead, it gave me the following error Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse. So Here I am Explain to you all the possible solutions here.
Without wasting your time, Let’s start This Article to Solve This Error.
- How Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error Occurs ?
- How To Solve Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error ?
- Solution 1: Just Add the -vm parameters in the eclipse configuration file
- Solution 2: Change requiredJavaVersion
- Summery
How Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error Occurs ?
Today I just installed Eclipse And As I restarted the IDE Eclipse would not start. Instead, it gave me the following error.
Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in EclipseHow To Solve Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error ?
- How To Solve Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error?
To Solve Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error To resolve this error only you have to add the following two lines directly before the line
-vmargsand adapt the path to your Java 11 or higher 64-bit Java VM installation directory. Just add this line in your eclipse.ini. - Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse
To Solve Incompatible JVM. Version 1.8.0_261 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version: 11 or greater is required in Eclipse Error To resolve this error only you have to add the following two lines directly before the line
-vmargsand adapt the path to your Java 11 or higher 64-bit Java VM installation directory. Just add this line in your eclipse.ini.
Solution 1: Just Add the -vm parameters in the eclipse configuration file
To resolve this error only you have to add the following two lines directly before the line -vmargs and adapt the path to your Java 11 or higher 64-bit Java VM installation directory. Just add this line in your eclipse.ini.
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.9\bin\javaw.exeJust like the below Image.
By doing this your error will be solved.
Solution 2: Change requiredJavaVersion
- First of all Open a command prompt
- Run this command java -version
- You will get Your openJDK version.
- Then open the
eclipse.inifile which will be located at The file is located at C:\Users\Yourusername\eclipse\java-2019-12\eclipse - Find this line -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=11 And Replace With -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
- In your case requiredJavaVersion should be different. My java version is defined beloe.
openjdk version "1.8.0_275"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_275-8u275-b01-0ubuntu1~16.04-b01)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.275-b01, mixed mode)Summery
It’s all About this issue. Hope all solution helped you a lot. Comment below Your thoughts and your queries. Also, Comment below which solution worked for you?
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Thank you for the tip.
This didn’t work for me, but I found another solution:
After downloading a more recent Java version, there were two folders in directory C:\Program files\Java.
One called jdk-17.0.2 (newer version) and one called jre1.8.0_181 (older version).
I created a new folder “Old version” alongside the two existing ones, and moved the folder jre1.8.0_181 into it. Now Eclipse starts up!
works for me.. thanks bro
My pleasure to help You. Thank You For your valuable comment.
I also had the same issue, did the above steps and it worked like charm!!!
Thanks!!!!
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it works to also…thanks
I had to reinstall Eclipse every time I booted my laptop and editing .ini didn’t do anything, so that was getting a bit tiresome. However, this trick worked! Eclipse started up immediately after I moved the old Java, no reboot needed, nothing. Thank you very much!
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worked for me as well
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Really thank you very much indeed I just had to move jre1.8.0_333 to another folder in the mm directory.
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This worked for me. Thanks!
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works for me too! Thanks a lot!
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Thanks buddy , I also have the same issue after following your steps , it finally got solved,
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Your tips work for me, thanks !
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Thank you for your help, it worked
My pleasure to help You. Thank You For your valuable comment Karthikeyan.
First Use Solution 1 And then 2 and then my problem solved thanks
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Worked so well, thanks much… you are a life saver.
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