Mark,
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:34:52 -0500
From: Mark LaPierre <marklapier@xxxxxxx>
To: Mail List Fedora Users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Virtual machine => Physical machine -
fix screen
resolution?
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On 01/28/2012 09:01 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I sent this note to the Fedora virtual list so I thought I might try
here . .
I installed a Fedora 16 x86_64 virtual machine on a Fedora 14 x86_64
server but used a physical disk (/dev/sdb = /dev/vda) so I could get
the
new server going almost completely in virtual mode and then when it
was
ready to go, reboot the machine on the new drive. This process went
extremely well (thanks to all the Fedora developers!) but there were
a
few glitches left to sort out - one of which was the screen
resolution
for both the console and in X. It seems the default virtual screen
is
1024x768 but I need 1280x1024(or 768). I tried adding a vga
parameter to
the linux line in the grub.cfg file but that only temporarily
changed
the resolution during bootup. xorg.conf doesn't get used much
anymore -
do I need to create it for this case? Is there some way to tell
Fedora
to rediscover the maximum screen resolution somehow?
Thanks,
Phil.
Hey Phil,
I'm assuming that you are using a graphical desktop. Can you adjust
the
resolution with System/Preferences/Display?
No - the maximum resolution there is 1024x768 - which I presume is the
default res of the virtual screen. The monitor is capable of 1280x1024
(it was previously running Fedora 14).
Thanks,
Phil.
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E-mail: phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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