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?
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