Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

[Philip Rhoades]

Mark,


> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:34:52 -0500
> From: Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com>
> To: Mail List Fedora Users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Virtual machine => Physical machine - 
> fix	screen
> 	resolution?
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> 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?


No - the maximum resolution there is 1024x768 - which I presume is the 
default res of the virtual screen.  The monitor is capable of 1280x1024 
(it was previously running Fedora 14).

Thanks,

Phil.
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