Video Memory stuck at 4M

[rbrunelle]

Hi,

I am currently running a custom linux distribution inside VMWare Player. I enabled the vmware graphix kernel module (vmwgfx) and the X11 vmware driver (vmware_drv.so) as well.

When I boot my VM, everything is fine but the display resolution, 1024x768. By looking at the Xorg.0.log, it seems that the vmware driver limit the resolution because of the memory size.

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[3330443.517] (II) vmware(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (insufficient memory for mode)

...

By looking at the kernel messages:

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[    1.297915] [drm] VRAM at 0xe8000000 size is 4096 kiB   --------------------------------------------------- 4M

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[    1.336968] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.9.0 20150810 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0

A quick google tells me that by changing the values:

svga.autodetect = "FALSE"

svga.maxWidth = "3840"

svga.maxHeight = "2160"

svga.vramSize = "33226752"

Should do the trick, but its not. No matter what I put in that config, its always 4M available in the VM.

Anybody observed the same problem ? Any missing configuration ?

Thanks.

[wila]

Hi,

Had a quick look at a linux vm config down here in VMware Workstation 12, the VM has 768MB for the video card and it only has these settings:

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
svga.graphicsMemoryKB = "786432"
svga.guestBackedPrimaryAware = "TRUE"

Not sure if that helps.

PS: Careful with the hand editing, make sure the  quote characters are normal double quotes and shut down your VM and VMware Player before editing anything.

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Wil