[Feature]: A way to have more VRAM

[GeekCornerGH]

Is your proposal related to a problem?

Tried installing sequoia using this project (cool project btw), but there's no wallpaper for example, and instead of pictures, there's a white screen.

Describe the solution you'd like.

A way to give the VM more VRAM (see quickemu-project/quickemu#211)

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Going back to VMWare Worksation, but i'd like to avoid that at all costs

Additional context

No response

[kroese]

Can you try with:

environment:
   VGA: "vmware-svga,vgamem_mb=64"

and see if it makes a difference?

[GeekCornerGH]

Will do, thanks for the fast response

[GeekCornerGH]

Hi @kroese I'm getting a unknown vga type: vmware-svga,vgamem_mb=64 thrown from QEMU

[kroese]

Maybe

environment:
   VGA: "vmware,vgamem_mb=64"

[GeekCornerGH]

Same error

[GeekCornerGH]

@kroese Seems the issue is caused by this line:

https://github.com/qemus/qemu-docker/blob/cbb7e3a042274b8d77e74c6474b6822970180278/src/display.sh#L37

A workaround would be to define a new variable for the display options that can be overriden from the macos container

[kroese]

@GeekCornerGH It doesn't reach that line, that part is only reached when GPU=Y. It goes via this line: https://github.com/qemus/qemu-docker/blob/cbb7e3a042274b8d77e74c6474b6822970180278/src/display.sh#L18

In any case, it might be worth trying other display adapters, like:

environment:
   VGA: "std"

or

environment:
   VGA: "virtio-vga"

or

environment:
   VGA: "qxl-vga"

[GeekCornerGH]

Hi @kroese, tried both std and virtio (not virtio-vga as it doesn't exists), and none of them solved the issue, the pic is still not visible (had to try with macOS 14, since 15 seems to be broken right now):

qxl-vga on the other hand requires the qemu-system-modules-spice package.