Comment 16 for bug 1308756

Hi Doug,

> I disagree about bumping the memory size as a fix:

In the release notes I only mentioned changing the machine type,
however bumping the memory size does work in the qemu command line.
It's just that ...

> For many months (13.10 days) I have always been bumping the memory for
> the video, as I calculated that it should be more. Typically, I have
> this in the .xml file:
>

> <model type='vmvga' vram='16384' heads='1'/>

Yeah, see http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-March/msg01118.html
for why that didn't work. What you have ought to work, ideally,
but it doesn't.

> And I even ran this just now:
>
> <model type='vmvga' vram='32768' heads='1'/>
>
> Question:
>
> what file or location that contains this stuff mentioned above? (so that I can look at the bigger context):
> },{\
> .driver = "VGA",\
> .property = "vgamem_mb",\
> .value = stringify(8),\
> },{\
> .driver = "vmware-svga",\
> .property = "vgamem_mb",\
> .value = stringify(8)

hw/i386/pc_piix.c in the qemu source