Choose the Hardware Version for a Virtual Machine

Upgrading the hardware version of your virtual machine improves performance by increasing the memory limit, the number of processors utilized, and the amount of disk space available to the virtual machine.
Verify that you have the latest version of VMware tools installed.
  1. Select
    Window
    Virtual Machine Library
    .
  2. Select a virtual machine in the
    Virtual Machine Library
    window and click
    Settings
    .
  3. Under Other in the
    Settings
    window, click
    Compatibility
    .
  4. Under Advanced options, select a hardware version from the
    Use Hardware Version
    drop-down menu.
    Hardware version 12 enables higher performance of the virtual machine, including improved accelerated 3D graphics rendering.