Hi,
i´m running windows 7 on my Macbook with Virtualbox. The Macbook has an graphic chip with 128 MB. I recently upgraded my RAM to 16 GB. My Macbook is now using some of that as graphic memory. In Virtualbox i can not assign more than 128 MB, graphic memory to my windows system.
Is there a way to tell Virtualbox to use some of the RAM as graphic memory or can i do that in Windows itself.
Thanks,
Civer_Black
Shared Memory in VM
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socratis
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Re: Shared Memory in VM
You are actually doing it. The VRAM that you assign to your guest (128MB as you said) is actually host's RAM, it's not your host's VRAM. The limit is what it is. You cannot go more than that.Cover_Black wrote:Is there a way to tell Virtualbox to use some of the RAM as graphic memory
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Re: Shared Memory in VM
Just to be clear: the amount of physical VRAM in your host is not relevant. VirtualBox never uses host VRAM in the guest, guest VRAM has always been simulated, using host OS RAM. It's just a coincidence if the host VRAM limit was similar to the one used by VirtualBox.