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Support set vgamem for video

Registered by Liyingjun on 2017-02-28

We can set video.vram by setting hw_video_ram in image properties currently [1], but can't set vgamem. The default vgamem is 16MiB, it's not enough for 4k resolutions in some cases. [2]

[1]: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L4170-L4177
[2]: http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/draft/video-ram/

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Status:: Started

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Drafter:: Liyingjun

Direction:: Needs approval

Assignee:: Liyingjun

Definition:: New

Series goal:: Proposed for pike

Implementation:: Started

Milestone target:: None

Started by: Liyingjun on 2017-02-28

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/support-vgamem,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/438787
Spec for support set vgamem for video

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/411191
libvirt: Enable custom video vgamem setting

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