Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:30:46 -0200
From: "Germán A. Racca" <german.racca(a)gmail.com>
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen
resolution?
Message-ID: <4F24D986.3020409(a)gmail.com>
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On 01/29/2012 12:01 AM, 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.
Hi Phil:
Are you using Virtual Box? Did you install guest additions?
You misunderstand - I installed the system originally using qemu-kvm on
a PHYSICAL (not virtual) disk and then when I was happy that nearly
everything was working properly, I rebooted the machine as a NON-virtual
ie a normal physical machine.
Regards,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au