VMware, Inc.
Virtual machine graphics resource usage

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for calculating graphics resources for a virtual machine. One of the methods includes determining resources available on a graphics card device included in a computer executing a plurality of virtual machines, each virtual machine configured to execute a virtual desktop; determining, based on data received from a hypervisor that manages execution of at least one of the plurality of virtual machines, a graphics profile for a virtual machine included in the plurality of virtual machines executing on the computer; determining a portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine using the graphics profile; and computing an amount of resources on the graphics card device consumed by a virtual desktop of the virtual machine based on the portion of the available resources on the graphics card device allocated to the virtual machine.