[clue-cert] (LPIC) Parallels / Virtual Machine / Screen Resolution

[Charles Hutchinson]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:39 PM, David Overcash
<funnylookinhat at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> For several reasons I am not installing any window management systems for
> my CentOS and Debian virtual machines...  I feel more than comfortable with
> several consoles through F1-F6.  The problem is that I cannot get a
> comfortable screen resolution (I think I'm stuck at something like 40x25
> characters).  I'm trying to use a program called SVGATextMode to increase
> that screen size, but to no avail.
>
> Do any of you have any ideas?  Parallels basically works through a VESA 3.0
> driver, so it should handle higher resolutions... just can't figure out how
> to force it.  My other option would be to run SSH on each VM and then just
> use my console from OS X to SSH into the virtual machine, enabling scrolling
> and whatnot.  While a bit obfuscated, it's certainly the geeky way to do
> things.  :-)
>
> Thanks guys,  See you all Monday.
>
> -David
>


I always pass a vga= kernel option in grub/lilo.  vga=791 is 1024x768 64K
colors, 792 same but 16.8M colors.

Here is the wiki article on vesa modes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions

Charlie
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