Eclipse neon "Could not create the JVM"

Question

We are setting up eclipse neon on Java 1.7 and it fails to start showing a popup with message

Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Here is configuration in eclipse.ini

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.201.v20161025-1711.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.401.v20161122-1740
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-XX:+UseStringDeduplication
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m

Answer 1

I found this answer helpful. I was getting this error even after using java 8, So just delete eclipse.ini file, but backup first.

Answer 2

As of Eclipse Platform 4.6, and the Neon release, a Java 8 (or later) JRE or JDK is required to run Eclipse.