[one-users] Video RAM settings for VMware

[Tino Vazquez]

Hi,

The translation is not performed by a script but rather the OpenNebula
core. What you are looking for resides in
src/vmm/LibVirtDriverVMware.cc in the source core.

Regards,

-Tino

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Marcin Jarzab <mj at agh.edu.pl> wrote:
> Tino,
>
> Could you provide the information about the ONE script which is responsible
> for translation of the input data
> and creation of domain xml file? In case of problem I want to get into the
> source code:-)
>
>> Hi Marcin,
>>
>> The RAW attribute will instruct OpenNebula to pass the information
>> down to libvirt, and this is true also for the VMware drivers. I
>> haven't tried this myself, but I think libvrit should pass this
>> correctly to the ESX, and thus it  should work. I would be interested
>> in knowing if you succeeded with a template including the RAW
>> attribute you pasted, changing KVM for VMWARE.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Tino
>>
>> --
>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>> Project Engineer
>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Marcin Jarzab<mj at agh.edu.pl>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm getting such an error:
>>>
>>> error: Failed to start domain one-41
>>> Tue Sep 25 15:45:27 2012 [VMM][I]: error: internal error Could not start
>>> domain: GenericVmConfigFault - Insufficient video RAM. The maximum
>>> resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to 1176x885. To use the
>>> configured maximum resolution of 2560x1600, increase the amount of video
>>> RAM
>>> allocated to this virtual machine by setting svga.vramSize="16384000" in
>>> the
>>> virtual machine's configuration file.
>>>
>>>
>>> In "google" (http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/11667/7791/) I found
>>> sth.
>>> about the RAW section:
>>>
>>> RAW = [ TYPE="KVM", DATA="<video><model type='cirrus' vram='16384'
>>> heads='1'/><address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02'
>>> function='0x0'/></video>"]
>>>
>>> Does it work for vmware?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ph.D. Eng. Marcin Jarzab
>>> mj at agh.edu.pl
>>> http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/people/mj
>>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Ph.D. Eng. Marcin Jarzab
> mj at agh.edu.pl
> http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/people/mj
>
> Department of Computer Science
> AGH University of Science and Technology
> Kawiory 21, Building D17, 30-055  Krakow, POLAND
> phone: +48 (12) 328 33 72
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>