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Hardware advice for Ubuntu 12.04 on VMware able to run 1080HD Videos

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May 11, 2013 5:29:02 AM

Hello,

I struggle with this problem for days and I need some advice regarding my configurations.
I have a Windows 7 64 bit system and I'm able to view 1080p HD videos at 1920x1080 resolution without problems and without any lags.

However on VMware Player when running an 1080p HD video usually lags and becomes unresponsive. I want to know if its has something to do with my hardware configurations?

I have allocated 4 cores and 2GB RAM for this station. Any advice will be very helpful.

Thank you for your support and time.

Summary
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 42 °C
Kentsfield 65nm Technology
RAM
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 400MHz (5-5-5-18)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5K (LGA775) 46 °C
Graphics
BenQ GW2250H (1920x1080@60Hz)
1024MB AMD Radeon HD 5500 Series (Gigabyte)
Hard Drives
298GB SAMSUNG HD320KJ ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55L ATA Device
Audio
High Definition Audio Device

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May 11, 2013 7:33:28 AM

The problem isn't really the hardware per se. The problem is that GPU virtualization does not pass through very well in a desktop environment, especially if you aren't running a primary hypervisor for your host OS. What this means is while your Windows 7 is able to utilize the Radeon HD graphics to help improve the performance of HD video, the virtual machine can't actually access that piece of hardware. It is just using the processor to simulate graphics load, which is not going to give you near as good results.

Basically, if you want to run a virtual machine and have decent graphics capabilities, you are going to have to look into running something like ESXi with GPU acceleration and supported configurations as your host OS instead of Windows 7 with VMWare Player. There are other hypervisors out there which can do GPU acceleration, such as RemoteFX built in with Hyper-V scenarios, but I don't know of any really that can be installed on top of a Windows desktop environment such as VMWare Player.
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