[REGRESSION][BISECTED] vmwgfx crashes with command buffer error after update

[Andreas Piesk]

Am 16.08.24 um 20:56 schrieb Zack Rusin:
> 
> Thanks! I see. I have a patch out that fixes it, but in general I
> think those vm's with 16mb for graphics are very risky and I'd suggest
> bumping them to at least 32mb. The vram portion can stay at 16mb, but
> the graphicsMemoryKB can be safely set to fourth or even half of
> memsize (in your config 256mb or even 512mb), which will make the vm's
> a lot safer and allow actual ui usage because with console being
> pinned we just don't have a lot of wiggle room otherwise and we just
> can't migrate pinned framebuffers.
> The patch that "regressed" this makes dumb buffers surface that
> actually respect pinning, but as long as you don't have gpu host side
> things will be ok. Otherwise we can't make a config with 16mb of
> available graphics memory and graphics acceleration work.

Thanks for the looking into it and fixing it.
The explanation with details is much appreciated and I will keep your suggestions in mind.
I just used the VMware defaults for Linux 6.x+ in ESXi 8, maybe they should be bumped up a little bit.

Best,
-ap