Re: Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8la/kACgkQqbQrVW3JyMRU8QCdF61OOx0xOMQfRWfENG5IAe2w sNYAnA7u7P0CilX4DOpKbtiezRccq3AR =oy0U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
Mark, Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:34:52 -0500 From: Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com To: Mail List Fedora Users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution? Message-ID: 4f24da7c.7060...@aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:30:46 -0200 From: Germán A. Racca german.ra...@gmail.com To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution? Message-ID: 4f24d986.3020...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
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? I know, it sounds like a dumb suggestion, but sometimes it's the simple things that bite you. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
I have a Scientific Linux machine that does not recognize my monitor. I had
to add (at least) this to the xorg.conf file:
Section Monitor
Identifier Monitor0
VendorName Unknown
ModelName CRT-0
HorizSync 30.0 - 74.6
VertRefresh 60.0
ModeLine 1920x1200 193.16 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242
-hsync +vsync
Option dpms
EndSection
{^_^}
On 2012/01/29 14:29, Mark LaPierre wrote:
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?
I know, it sounds like a dumb suggestion, but sometimes it's the simple things
that bite you.
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Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
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: p...@pricom.com.au -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
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? Cheers, Germán. -- Germán A. Racca Fedora Package Maintainer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: [CentOS] Virtual machine = Physical machine - fix screen resolution?
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? -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
