3.1.0 B3 Install

[Perryg]

Win 32 seems to have installed as upgrade fairly well in Vista Business. Had a slight network problem but rebooting took care of that.
I did notice that the CD was missing when I went to add the additions and had to shutdown and add it to the list of controllers.
Not a big issue but wonder why?

Another thing I noticed is the last (2) versions required me to have 22 MB of vRam and this one required 32 MB.

[Sasquatch]

In addition to the VRAM, I had quite some updates to do on my VMs to get rid of the warning. I used to be able to have XP with 8 MB VRAM, then it needed 12 and now 14. That's almost double of the beginning, without any change in 3D settings (off) or enabling 2D (wasn't there before 3.1, so always off). Why the sudden need for high VRAM settings? Another VM, with Ubuntu, set to 12 MB VRAM I don't get the warning. I can even bring it down to 8 MB. What's the difference?

[mpack]

Can someone tell me if this VRAM allocation comes out of the overall RAM allocated to the guest, or is it an additional allocation on the host?

[Sasquatch]

I think it's directly from the Host. I don't seem to be missing any RAM in the Guest, as I have on my laptop Host (has intel graphics card with shared memory).

[klaus]

The increased VRAM size is a suggestion, as the 2d (video) acceleration needs more space to do offscreen rendering. If you don't want to use that feature you can keep the old VRAM size.

[Sasquatch]

The increased VRAM size is a suggestion, as the 2d (video) acceleration needs more space to do offscreen rendering. If you don't want to use that feature you can keep the old VRAM size.

But that doesn't explain the need for more VRAM for Windows compared to Linux/Ubuntu, with the same video settings (no 3D, no 2D). Warning is all about full screen and seamless. In fact, a Linux VM with 3D doesn't even need more than 8 MB.