Doh! Thanks. I'm now connected to local dev-test vm with PuTTY (like font better than VirtualBox also). I looked at vidcontrol, but the obvious solution is the winner.
-- Dale Scott Calgary, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:43 Subject: Re: setting console width when running FreeBSD in VirtualBox To: Dale Scott <dalesc...@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:50:50 -0700, "Dale Scott" > <dalesc...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Does anyone have a solution to this? > > Yes, the obvious one: Use SSH to connect to your development-test > server instead of using VirtualBox's implementation of the OS's > console I/O. > > Of course, you can change the console's parameters using tools > like vidcontrol; from its manual: > > mode Select a new > video mode. The modes currently recognized are: > 80x25, 80x30, 80x43, 80x50, 80x60, 132x25, 132x30, 132x43, > 132x50, 132x60, VGA_40x25, VGA_80x25, VGA_80x30, VGA_80x50, > VGA_80x60, VGA_90x25, VGA_90x30, VGA_90x43, VGA_90x50, VGA_90x60, > EGA_80x25, EGA_80x43, VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, > VESA_132x60. The raster text mode VESA_800x600 can also be cho- > sen. Alternatively, a mode can be specified with its number by > using a mode name of the form MODE_<NUMBER>. A list of valid > mode numbers can be obtained with the -i mode option. See Video > Mode Support below. > > Higher resolutions are possible, and VirtualBox should be able > to change the dimensions of its console window to the value > you set. Note that it may be needed to add a specific setting > to /boot/loader.conf (e. g. VESA BIOS support). > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
