VMware Workstation 6.04: Unrecoverable error on Linux x64

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition, 64-bit. After installing VMware Workstation 6.04 for Linux x64, I received this error when starting VMs stored on an NTFS USB disk:

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)
Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!
A log file is available in "/media/USB_DATA/NET-DC-01/vmware.log".  Please request support and include the contents of the log file.
To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.
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Click OK and locate the VM’s vmx file. Open it in nano or another text editor and add:

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mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"

Save the file and try starting the VM again.

This setting avoids using a named file and is for VMs on USB disks or other slow disks.

• Windows: useNamedFile= "FALSE" causes memory to be backed by the host’s swap space.
• Linux: useNamedFile= "FALSE" causes a hidden file to be created in a temporary directory. The file is deleted immediately when the VM is powered off.