Question re: Setting SPICE Memory Amount in GUI: What variable does it actually change?

[SInisterPisces]

When changing a VM's display to SPICE (QXL), we can specify an amount of video memory. The default is 16 MB, and we can expand up to 512 MB. Within the GUI, this is just displayed as "(qxl,memory=X)", or not shown at all if the default is left unchanged.

Looking at the SPICE docs gives us this chart:


When we set memory in Proxmox, are we setting ram_size_mb, vgamem_mb, or vram_size_mb? Since the default is "16," I assume we're setting "vgamem_mb," but that's just a guess.

 

[fiona]

Hi,
it's vgamem_mb, but vram_size_mb and ram_size_mb will just be multiples of it: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-ser...c94936e1bb38dac79007b4beddda723;hb=HEAD#l1778

 

[SInisterPisces]

Hi,
it's vgamem_mb, but vram_size_mb and ram_size_mb will just be multiples of it: https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-ser...c94936e1bb38dac79007b4beddda723;hb=HEAD#l1778

Thanks! Is there somewhere I could file a request that this be included in the documentation? I went down a bit of a rabbithole when I tried reading the SPICE docs.

 

[fiona]

Yes, enhancement requests (also for docs) can be made on our bugzilla: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/