VM video memory

[Roger Herling <Ro...@marist.edu>]

Not sure if this is possible or not but we are using esx 4.1 free edition 
and I am trying to create a windows 7 image with adobe cs5 on it and I am 
having some performance issues and I am wondering if the fact that the VM 
only has 4mb of video memory allocated to it when the vm is created is 
there a way for the vcl to create a vm with a set amount of video memory?



Roger Herling
Sr. Desktop Administrator
Marist College
Office: 845-575-3347
Cell: 845-420-4298

Re: VM video memory

[Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu>]

There is currently no way to have the video memory set to a custom 
amount on a per-image basis unless you modify the code.

A change was made from VCL 2.2 --> 2.2.1 to add the following line to 
the vmx file when it is generated:
svga.autodetect = "TRUE"

This causes the Video card setting to be set to "Auto-detect video 
settings" when viewed using the vSphere Client.  This solved problems 
viewing the VM console in the vSphere Client.  I'm not sure how the 
amount of video memory is determined using this setting but it may help 
your problem.

The setting the the vmx file which sets a specific video memory amount 
is svga.vramSize.  VCL does not set this.  It would be possible to add a 
line to the prepare_vmx subroutine in VMware.pm such as:
"svga.vramSize" => "8388608",

Please submit a Jira issue if you'd like to see this value be 
customizable in a future release.

-Andy

On 3/11/2011 8:48 AM, Roger Herling wrote:
> Not sure if this is possible or not but we are using esx 4.1 free
> edition and I am trying to create a windows 7 image with adobe cs5 on it
> and I am having some performance issues and I am wondering if the fact
> that the VM only has 4mb of video memory allocated to it when the vm is
> created is there a way for the vcl to create a vm with a set amount of
> video memory?
>
>
>
> *Roger Herling*
> *Sr. Desktop Administrator*
> Marist College
> *Office:* 845-575-3347
> *Cell:* 845-420-4298
>