Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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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.
>
Try deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that does it.

Mikkel
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