DockerDesktopVM failed to start after increasing Docker Desktop RAM limit (0x800705AA)
08:40 12 May 2026

After increasing the RAM limit in Docker Desktop, I started getting this error:

running Hyper-V engine: starting Hyper-V VM: status code not OK but 500:
Unhandled exception: job failed with message:
'DockerDesktopVM' failed to start.

'DockerDesktopVM' is unable to allocate 8448 MB of RAM:
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. (0x800705AA)

It was working before changing the Docker RAM settings.
How can I fix this?

docker docker-desktop