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vSphere+Debian+KDE Plasma=Crash?
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I just left it as default which is 1 display and 8mb video memory
8MB?! That is abysmally low for KDE. Depending on the apps you're using, I'd recommend allocating at least 256MB, if you're going to use it for actual productivity tasks.
Edit: Here's a screenshot from nvtop showing my VRAM usage on KDE 5.27:![](https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/19f2be0c-1b38-49aa-8919-3a8af17823e8.png)
As you can see, Plasma alone is using 209MB, and Kwin 175MB, and this is with nothing but just Plasma and Konsole running on a very basic desktop (no fancy widgets, just one panel). Now this is at 2880x1800, so if your VM is running at a lower resolution you'd need lesser VRAM, but you can use that as a reference to see how much VRAM KDE really needs.
I just tried increasing it but the maximum I can set is 255 and that made no difference unfortunately. All the Windows VMs are also set at 8 and they don’t have any problems