Changing resolution of your Ubuntu Server command line in VMWare Fusion

Ben Haines — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:29:52 +0000

UPDATE: I’ve since been told this doesn’t work for all users. I’ve done a bit more searching and the easiest solution is to simply use Mac OSX Terminal at full screen :)

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Once again I find myself blogging about something that took way too long to solve. If you want to change the console / cli / command line resolution of your Ubuntu Server running in VMWare Fusion then this is what you need to do:

Edit the grub template file:

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

Add the desired resolution from the table below to the file:

    | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 |  0x301    0x303    0x305    0x307
32k |  0x310    0x313    0x316    0x319
64k |  0x311    0x314    0x317    0x31A
16M |  0x312    0x315    0x318    0x31B

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINE="vga=0x317"

Trigger an update to all the grub config files by issuing the following:

sudo update-grub

Check it works :)

sudo reboot

You will get a message saying that “vga=” has been depreciated and that you should use GFXPAYLOAD instead. Unfortunately you cannot easily add that param to your /etc/default/grub file without changing a whole bunch of other stuff.

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