Set RAM size for video card
jremerich opened this issue · comments
Hi!
I generated an OVA format image of CentOS 8 Stream using an ISO file, but when I run terraform to create the VM in ESXi 6.7 it returns an error message: Invalid VM configuration. Reason: 'Invalid configuration for device '2'.' for property 'VirtualVideoCard.videoRamSizeInKB'.
So I did some searchs and find a bug about the videoRamSizeInKB parameter: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/65205
To confirm this I extracted the OVA file, opened the ovf file and found that the value is set to 262144KB (256MB).
Before this Stream image, I did an image of CentOS 8 'normal' and this one generated an ovf with value 131072KB (128MB)
Is the same computer and same script (I only changed the iso's URL and checksum).
I looked on documentation and don't found how to set video ram size.
When I create VM manually using ISO on VMware Workstation it already sets video ram to 256MB and doesn't enable to change.
Is possible to change this parameter? There is any workarround?
Here my environment:
- Packer v1.7.10
- Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 64bits
Thanks!
The video_ram capability is only available in the vSphere plugin and it's builders.
Ryan Johnson
Senior Staff Solutions Architect | Product Engineering @ VMware, Inc.
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