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  • 1.  Screen Resolution in Windows 7 Guest OS, hosted on ESXi

    Posted Apr 13, 2011 09:36 PM

    Hello,

    Im trying to achieve a custom screen resolution of 1920 wide x 2400 tall on a Windows 7 Guest OS hosted on

    a headless ESXi server.

    This worked using the previous XPDM driver SVGA II, and setting the following vmx variables:

    svga.maxHeight=2400

    svga.maxWidth=1920

    svga.autodetect=false

    svga.vramSize=18481152

    Unfortunately the driver was unstable with occasional random lockups and further research showed the

    SVGA II driver not supported by Vista or Windows 7.

    I changed to the supported WDDM driver SVGA 3D, but the vmx settings no longer work.  I tried to set VRAM to 32MB and

    there is no change, then set svga.autodetect=true and get a maximum resolution choice of 2560x1600,

    but maxHeight and maxWidth settings are ignored.

    Is there a way to achieve custom screen resolution in a Windows 7 guest OS?    Previous posts describe methods for

    the SVGA II driver which is not supported in Windows 7.

    Thanks

    Conrad



  • 2.  RE: Screen Resolution in Windows 7 Guest OS, hosted on ESXi

    Posted Apr 13, 2011 09:52 PM

    Did you reset, not restart, but reset your VM after making the change to your vmx? I know that has solved some of my weird video problems in View.