[TriLUG] Xubuntu 12.10 as KVM guest gotcha

Kristopher Kane kristopher.kane at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 15:23:12 EDT 2012


>
> The workaround in this case is to change the virtual video card type. The
> default is 'cirrus', and the best option I could find from the docs is
> 'vmvga'. This presents a VMWare style video card to the guest, which is
> pretty well understood. The only disadvantage is you start up in 800x600,
> which doesn't give you much real estate. A quick call to xrandr will fix you
> right up (which does unfortunately have to be done on each startup).
>
> xrandr --output default --mode 1024x768

Thanks for this.

-Kris



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