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Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
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How to increase screen resolution when used with Virt-Manager? #630

Closed JulianChia closed 2 months ago

JulianChia commented 3 months ago

I have completed Step 2a of README.md without any problem:

## Step 2a (Virtual Machine Manager)
1. If instead of QEMU, you'd like to import the setup into Virt-Manager for further configuration, just run `sudo ./make.sh --add`.
2. After running the above command, add `MyDisk.qcow2` as storage in the properties of the newly added entry for VM.

I encountered a big problem after changing the screen resolution per your instruction. Pressing the Esc key during Reboot is not recognised when using Virt-Manager, hence Step 2 on How to increase screen resolution for macOS-Simple-KVM can't be done in Virt-Manager although it works for QEMU.

2. Shut down the VM, relaunch it using `basic.sh` script and follow the following steps:
 - Press `Escape` key as soon as the window comes up.
 - In the interface that comes up, select `Device Manager`->`OVMF Platform Configuration`->`Change Preferred` and select the correct resolution.
 - Press `F10` to save the changes.
 - Press `Escape` multiple times to come back to main menu, and then select `Continue` on it.

Consequently, my screen becomes unusable like so:

Virt-Manager_after_resolution_inreased

How do I increase the VM resolution without breaking the VM?

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 and Virtual Machine Manager 4.0.0. I had increased the resolution to 1920x1080.

JulianChia commented 2 months ago

Fixed. Closing this issue.

Virt-Manager_after_resolution_inreased-fixed

tone-milazzo commented 3 days ago

What was the fix please?