Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

[Philip Rhoades]

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.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW	2001
Australia
E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au