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

[David Overcash]

Fantastic, thanks!

Surprisingly, my googling turned up nothing similiar to this except to use
an extra tool.

-David

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Charles Hutchinson <chutchin at geekboi.org>wrote:

>
>
> 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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