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QEMU: How to increase VRAM allocation?

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I’m having trouble allocating more VRAM to my QEMU virtual machine. Currently, I’m using the following command to launch my VM:

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -boot menu=on -drive file=QEMU -m 2G -cpu host -vga virtio

Can anyone help me figure out how to increase the VRAM allocation in QEMU?

Solution by lnxtx@feddit.nl qemu-system-x86_64 [...] -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size_mb=128 -global qxl-vga.ram_size_mb=128

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Not sure, but maybe the QXL driver will help:

qemu-system-x86_64 [...] -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size_mb=128 -global qxl-vga.ram_size_mb=128
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It’s an improvement, but 500MB+ would be perfect.

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Replace the value 128 to 512. And try again :)

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I was under the impression that QXL driver were capped at 256MB too, thanks.

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