

Personally If I want better video performance on a VM, rather than HyperV I use something with a lighter OS lift like Oracle's "Virtual Box" which offers better Video memory allocation through the Guest Settings interface. If you still have poor performance then you can try shutting down the VM and adjusting the Display Memory from the Virtual Machine Guest settings. Like what a high end 486 from 25 years ago would have. If you are not using on Chip video which shares regular ram, you are using a very low memory 2D graphics that is just designed for managing a server not day to day interaction with it. Your network speed may affect how things look.Īnother potential issue is that standard commercial servers do not have high performing graphics engines to begin with. Then your local system is only displaying from the remote system.

The best way to view a guest on an Enterprise Hypervisor is using Remote Desktop from another system and being in full screen mode. Nevertheless, when you are viewing the Guest console from within the hypervisor on the same system, your refresh rate is even lower since the VM might send a screen update that you wont see until the local console refreshes. That is not what they were designed to do. I wouldn't try running a movie from a VM Guest for instance. First off, most Virtual servers are not designed for stunning video performance.
