Hyper-V: Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Video Device

Question

Hyper-V uses the Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Video Device as your default video driver. This is okay, but the only issue that I have with it is that the color setting is 16 bit and not 32 bit. I need 32 bit for Google Sketchup 8. The VM OS is Windows XP SP3. Is there a way beside this link here to do this? I really don't want to mess with the registry.

Also I understand that RDP will use 32 bit color and just about any resolution I want. However Sketchup still flags an warning for using the 16 bit color setting.

Solution

• Go into the VM and into XP's Device Manager.
• Changed video adapter to use the "Standard VGA" driver.
• Set colour depth to 32-bit.

The Standard VGA driver will be slower (no hardware acceleration) but it lets you get to 32-bit color depths.

That's essentially all the scripting at the link you provided does.

Comments

[Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007]

SuperUsers aren't afraid of editing the registry. :)

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@techie007 Not afraid, just would like it to be a last resort.

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@techie007 How do I change the video adapter to use a "Standard VGA" driver? I don't see that option under display adapters in device manager.

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How do I change the video adapter to use a "Standard VGA" driver? I don't see that option under display adapters in device manager.