Hi Everyone,
Hope you can help with this funny I have at the moment.
Running vSphere 4. Just built a Windows Server 2008 Datacenter 32Bit VM. Everything looks good.
I have followed the following article to update the display adapter ;
http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2010/03/28/windows-2008-r2-and-windows-7-on-vsphere/
Only trouble now is... If I try & up the screen resolution from 800 by 600 to 1024 by 768 the screen just goes black. I have to press ESC to get it back to 800 by 600 so I can see whats going on again...
Previously built 2 64bit 2008 VM's & not had this issue... Something I am missing?
Hope you can point me in the right direction.
Ta
hummm... in 32 bit 2008 server if i take it down to 16 bit colours the 1024 by 768 resolution works... In 64 bit 2008 server both 16 bit & 32 bit colours work at 1024 by 768 resolution.
is this normal? i know its probably best practice to lower the colours any how for performance but why work in 64bit OS & not 32?
Cheers
after some time I found this info & thought I would share with everyone....
Basically change the total video ram to 8MB. This is set automatically by VMWare when you build a 2008 R2 server but when you build a 32 Bit 2008 Server its set to 4MB.
Easy when you know what your looking for ![]()
