adiloret
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I was finally able to get this to work with Win 7 32-bit with only 2GB of RAM and a Radeon 5750 1GB.

I am curious as to why video acceleration is not supported. With the latest flash player stuff like youtube videos hang with a green screen. I also see the same thing with DXVA video acceleration with videos. After disabling hardware acceleration for both, everything works fine again (of course producing a higher strain on the CPU). Does it have anything to do with the fact that there are two video adapters on there and the VMware video adapter doesn't deal with the acceleration request properly? Is there any way to completely remove the virtual video adapter so the VMDP adapter becomes the primary?

I also have one other hiccup, but I shouldn't be surprised. I chose to VMDP the primary video card used by ESXi 4.1, so the console video gets ripped away by the VM when it boots up. I can deal without consle video, but when I go to reboot the ESXi server, near the final stages before the reboot it just hangs. When I reset the machine things are back to normal again. I guess I could trace it to see what is actually happening.

This whole idea of VMDP is pretty impressive. I just hope VMware works to further improve/stabilize it so it can be used with many more PCIe devices.

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