[Fedora-xen] How to change resolution above 1024x768 in guess OS?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> 1600x1200 for real-estate on the monitor. I am using Virt-manager and 
> getting the screen for there.  If I crank up the resolution in my guest, 
> it seems to stop at 10x24x768(24 bit color )
> This is using VNC to connect right?  Is there a config for that to set 
> connection resolution size?
> The client is seen to have a cirrus logic video card with 8 Megs of RAM.

You can't do it -- the problem is a limitation in the emulated Cirrus 
Logic graphics card.  I think the max you'll ever get is 1280x1024 in 16 
colours:

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC50

As another reply suggested, you could try running a headless X server + 
a VNC server inside the guest.  Or simpler is just to 'ssh -Y ...' into 
the guest and run X programs directly, assuming the guest is running 
some sort of Un*x.

Rich.

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