CentOS Window too large

[LesD]

I installed an appliance (PIAF-Purple) running under CentOS 6.3

It starts up fine in my Windows 7 host but the console window is too high (too many lines) for my screen and I have to keep scrolling.

I need to shorten it by about 6 lines.

How can I adjust this?

Thanks

[noteirak]

Change the resolution in the guest.

[LesD]

How do you do that?

I know how to do that in Windows but not in CentOS.

I was not aware that the Console had a resolution to change.

[mpack]

Did you install the guest additions? See Guest Additions chapter of user manual if not. After that simply dragging the window border will change the guest display size.

[LesD]

I started to do that but then spotted an option on VB "Switch to Scale mode". That shrinks the window quite small but I can then drag the edge to the max that will fit.

I did not finish the install of guest additions as I do not see any significant benefit in a text based interface.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[Perryg]

If you are running a text based guest with no X, you need to set the guests framebuffer to the size you want it to be.

[LesD]

After some trial and error (breaking the boot in the process) I set vga= in grub.conf to 876 and it is now a confortable size - small window and large characters.

Thank you