-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/02/15 04:15 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 02/23/2015 10:53 PM, Digimer wrote: >> -----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 giving a long list of out-of-date instructions for doing so.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. > > Thank you for the reassurance that it _should_ work. I finally got > it going. The VM still always starts out in 1024x768 and I have to > set the higher resolution every time I log in. For a while, that > was working only the first time I set it, and on subsequent logins > any attempt to change the resolution either locked up or caused the > Xorg server to crash. All the RPMs verified OK and a forced fsck > of the filesystems found nothing. I eventually just reinstalled > the whole VM, and it's working now. > > The whole thing was bringing back bad memories of an ancient > version of Slackware and kernel version 0.99pl53. In my experience, once I set the resolution, it keeps that resolution through reboots/logins. The initial login page sits at 1024x768, but once logged in, it takes the resolution I asked for. - -- 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 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU7OqsAAoJECChztQA3mh0PHkP/jUOw8IjIaUrAFyakd+1s9W+ wNCTeDRJqmrFbuw/FqLaU5SmiRYrOv1pl7Aaxw8SISDWngk2HGgBBByMC+rhWbL6 TwJjeEFZqeYbICz9IkWXBiOXnoqdvjFCegl5H5XaQVneXtyV586+wm+G+dvsX7op N3NxxsqBNND09VjOUrLWexaXtOtoWONhv/CN6UukMB2vcB5RTgm73blMvtW2EBCr 6Lj9L/y/BFEkq1UJFFk7b+VlI+U7YNtLyWi+XziKX613H7zhko8JRZcFhfaRCMwW 07dP1/EdaooFOLEXzOZ2FMLd0Tpp+enWdJfzZBzAZtXO8vB8pimlaB2G1FAbdyaU mOc6fDXLEW0H0kITLOlL6KAgFlYBTfb13O7u4x/5Enc4AYO6rpwrJmWIWiOPJEqa 8BKgSbVAB9fcaZZwvVNGNkvxpEZGBDWQSXxU4Ha7wRUq0WazHV97fms9Xa1Cs7I2 n4VAoMFK3+FOjA3N2UIKpZkDPwZUi811FRHKCN2vuByPDotfRj6JNYOCZuUKtsWC mR0BSmDsA4qk7ljkXbnX/fP29aXVAdtCYOOZwCJxpoPLbSNXtX/Cglbf8vn8/NDm ToIJxJlwz/JRuwIY2BLnThVK2wKASgA59bzHHdo0ouc4v5gbShmjEt+E0/uOLyC9 iqtmEdvyI6j1SAnudkcU =3tYH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
