Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen resolution?

[Philip Rhoades]

> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:30:46 -0200
> From: "Germán A. Racca" <german.racca at gmail.com>
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Virtual machine => Physical machine - fix screen
> 	resolution?
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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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