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.
- Select.
- Select a virtual machine in theVirtual Machine Librarywindow and clickSettings.
- Under Other in theSettingswindow, clickCompatibility.
- Under Advanced options, select a hardware version from theUse Hardware Versiondrop-down menu.Hardware version 12 enables higher performance of the virtual machine, including improved accelerated 3D graphics rendering.