-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 23/02/15 11:11 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > Would someone please point me to some reasonably current > instructions for getting greater than 1024x768 video resolution for > a CentOS 6 guest on a CentOS 6 KVM/qemu host? When I search online > I find stuff from 2009 and 2010 saying, "For details see ...," and > linking to a URL that no longer exists, or pages that say, "You > need to switch from VNC to Spice," and giving a long list of > out-of-date instructions for doing so. (With virt-manager it takes > 2 clicks to do that. Of course it doesn't help -- still maxes out > at 1024x768.) > > I've found that I can just append "vga=0x380" to the kernel > command line and see Plymouth come up with the full graphical boot > screen in the correct 1440x900 resolution, but as soon as gdm > starts up, the display scrambles. I find suggestions to generate > an xorg.conf file, but no mention of what to put in it. I can run > "Xorg -configure", but the resulting file contains nothing about > video modes, so it's not apparent what needs to be added. > > I find it particularly annoying that a Windows 7 guest can set any > resolution I want up to 2560x1600, but a Linux guest can't go > higher than 1024x768. I played with this and found that, in fact, I had to switch the spice / qxl. With that change, I had no trouble pushing EL6 to much higher resolutions. - -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU7APUAAoJECChztQA3mh0OCoP/jW8jmGWWVdIirc+4G+kvo+S LZrJxIxZVDfJHioICZink8JJOKm9m5k8k0FKB6YonoLNWOgk8HlHfTTzG9dToT/C Rk3oTrI8pDCsMwccngd0VSVR2EQtmzQBp/O/38JHPM0/VjKnum/I1NWli8g5Xoq2 Q1BqAbrYJ2SAhVht2G91DKsP/nPLq93hBU+UrJkhg5bi3aFCw/Da53v5G3oOZTfr 9qS0RoibthrrF2yCIiXW0kdsEtwk8m+RYFroKjGh/PWcYIKhJdU2Rn8a6gDwRYPg 90fVCYwrqir1HChWsYGc0q+p3DNh/0WmPHjbfbs5o66erD2MZkkm7tbyM8gTcl3F 03wKyhO8qoFcCcgbLRBDb/pYKMX3ChOw7b1RFrYah1xWlZCNAWaBCVYm7DUGMfrV zqb70dVEkUch6f+rVxEo6mrWlj4927Pnp9pefTJ6aVibLZZBA040cVCMTpAwpa7H VsR3QhCcwhOpsCdn0WRCZFJyWlGO88Ry5A0RMUHrceBh0wPdTPPDhMiSg1qTlqCT 0VtaBiYeLevEzoMqnqcRI/+wW0/ooJzp5KjkxjFVVVLqwpqNQkHhEMvUBNLuF5Ui 6O5pZSwFk4K1c5sgOfxWkGuvYjKYmUW/BlnsTpulOzHsOVcJwREUC+IrXIftytfI BJ+4n8EX52YmiORmmGRJ =SO1z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
