I am trying to set up a Server 2008 R2 terminal server as a Hyper-V VM on a brand new Cisco UCS blade running Server 2012 R2.
I need the terminal server to support modern display resolutions at 32-bit color, as it will be used to display medical images. Unfortunately, this blade only contains a Matrox G200e video chipset with a whopping 8MB of video ram.
Does there exist a purely software-based video driver that I could use to emulate better graphics hardware? It doesn't have to support DirectX, Aero Glass, video games, or anything like that. It just need to be able to support 32-bit color at 1920×1200. The blade itself has 16 CPU cores with 256GB of RAM, so performance is not an issue.
Best Answer
Your RDP session video resolution is not related to the physical graphics adapter on the terminal server but is more related to the resolution you are running on the workstation initiating the connection.
Connecting directly through the Hyper-V console to the guest you will be limited to 1600x1200 resolution but this limit does not apply to an RDP session.