Lab 3.1 - Error : the system RAM (954 MB) is less than the minimum 1700 MB

Hi,

I'm following the steps outlined in Lab 3.1 - Install Kubernetes.
I get the following error when I run the command below:

Error:

 kubeadm init --config=kubeadm-config.yaml --upload-certs --node-name=cp \
 
 
  | tee kubeadm-init.out
 
 

[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.30.8
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
        [ERROR Mem]: the system RAM (954 MB) is less than the minimum 1700 MB

The RAM on the vm is 8 GB, so I'm not sure why I'm hitting this limit.

Any suggestions? thank you!