Windows 8 Dev Prev - VMware Player Error

This is a bit interesting.  Apparently something changed with respect to how applications query for available memory on the physical host.  At least, as far as how VMware products query for it.  I created a rather mundane Windows 7 32-bit guest machine and tried to launch it, but it won't launch.  Even though I have 8 GB of physical memory on the host, assigning 1 GB to the guest blows its mind.