{"id":584,"date":"2021-11-30T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:28:53","slug":"virtualbox-how-assign-more-video-memory-128mb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/virtualbox-how-assign-more-video-memory-128mb\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox &#8211; how to assign more video memory as 128MB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphical desktops (for example Mageia) usually run faster with more video memory, however VBox application (through setting menu) allows setup the maximal size of video mamory to 128MB only. We are able add more memory using command line. The maximal value is now 256MB.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows (tested under win7\/10 64bit)<\/h2>\n<p>1) go to the VBox install directory and start win command line there<\/p>\n<p>2) run command<\/p>\n<pre>VboxManage.exe showvminfo VBOX-MACHINE_NAME<\/pre>\n<p>where VBOX Machine is Mageia in my case. we should be able see actual video memory size of 128MB<\/p>\n<pre>c:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox&gt;VBoxManage.exe showvminfo Mageia\nName:            Mageia\nGroups:          \/\nGuest OS:        Mandriva\nUUID:            25081536-4cdd-43ff-8be0-a0f7dac73e1c\nConfig file:     C:\\Users\\palo.KIS\\VirtualBox VMs\\Mageia\\Mageia.vbox\nSnapshot folder: C:\\Users\\palo.KIS\\VirtualBox VMs\\Mageia\\Snapshots\nLog folder:      C:\\Users\\palo.KIS\\VirtualBox VMs\\Mageia\\Logs\nHardware UUID:   25081536-4cdd-43ff-8be0-a0f7dac73e1c\nMemory size:     512MB\nPage Fusion:     off\nVRAM size:       <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">128M<\/span>B\nCPU exec cap:    100%\nHPET:            off\nChipset:         piix3\nFirmware:        BIOS\nNumber of CPUs:  1\nSynthetic Cpu:   off\nCPUID overrides: None<\/pre>\n<p>3) Assign more memory running<\/p>\n<pre>VBoxManage.exe modifyvm VBOX-MACHINE_NAME --vram NEW_MEM_SIZE<\/pre>\n<p>in my case<\/p>\n<pre>c:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox&gt;VBoxManage.exe modifyvm Mageia --vram 256<\/pre>\n<p>4) finally check if it was modified<\/p>\n<pre>c:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox&gt;VBoxManage.exe showvminfo Mageia\nName:            Mageia\nGroups:          \/\nGuest OS:        Mandriva\nUUID:            25081536-4cdd-43ff-8be0-a0f7dac73e1c\nConfig file:     C:\\Users\\palo.KIS\\VirtualBox VMs\\Mageia\\Mageia.vbox\nSnapshot folder: C:\\Users\\palo.KIS\\VirtualBox VMs\\Mageia\\Snapshots\nLog folder:      C:\\Users\\palo.KIS\\VirtualBox VMs\\Mageia\\Logs\nHardware UUID:   25081536-4cdd-43ff-8be0-a0f7dac73e1c\nMemory size:     512MB\nPage Fusion:     off\nVRAM size:       <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">256MB<\/span>\nCPU exec cap:    100%<\/pre>\n<h2>Linux<\/h2>\n<p>And the same for Linux<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;~&gt; $ vbm showvminfo VBOX-MACHINE_NAME | grep VRAM\nVRAM size:       128MB\n\n&lt;~&gt; $ vbm modifyvm VBOX-MACHINE_NAME --vram 256\n\n&lt;~&gt; $ vbm showvminfo VBOX-MACHINE_NAME | grep VRAM\nVRAM size:       256MB<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tGraphical desktops (for example Mageia) usually run faster with more video memory, however VBox application (through setting menu) allows setup the maximal size of video mamory to 128MB only. We are able add more memory using command line. The maximal value is now 256MB.<\/p>\n<h2>\n\tWindows (tested under win 7 64bit)<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t1) go to the VBox install directory and start win command line there<\/p>\n<p>\n\t2) run command<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization-virtualbox-en"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":825,"label":"VirtualBox"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"comment_info":12,"category_info":[{"term_id":825,"name":"VirtualBox","slug":"virtualization-virtualbox-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":823,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":819,"count":12,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":825,"category_count":12,"category_description":"","cat_name":"VirtualBox","category_nicename":"virtualization-virtualbox-en","category_parent":819}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nil.uniza.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}