Here is the actual warning from VMotiononing:
Warning message from xxxx-esxi16.xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxxx.edu: Insufficient video RAM. The maximum resolution of the virtual machine will be limited to 1176x885. To use the configured maximum resolution of 2560x1600, increase the amount of video RAM allocated to this virtual machine by setting svga.vramSize="1638400" in the virtual machine's configuration file.
Here is the actual error on the logical VM host/image (Windows Server 2008):
VMCIUtil: Updating context id from 0xb9b2da33 to 0xb9b2da33 on event 0.