Re: [Astlinux-devel] Console in a VM

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

> Is it safe to switch an existing installed VM to UEFI and just reboot?

"poweroff" AstLinux in the VM, switch the VM to "BIOS: UEFI", then Start the VM.

I have an AstLinux VM with UEFI enabled mostly for testing.  I almost always use SSH when interacting.

Also, I seem to recall Proxmox issues a warning about temporary efi vars or some such ... you can ignore that.

Lonnie



> On Jun 19, 2025, at 10:38 PM, David Kerr <da...@ke...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Lonnie,
> Looks like I was wrong on the color, I do get that.  But I would like to have a higher resolution.  So, if I use UEFI bios then I should get that?  I've always installed Astlinux with the default SeaBIOS (on Proxmox).  Is it safe to switch an existing installed VM to UEFI and just reboot?
> 
> David
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> The VNC console has been color whenever I use it.  Not sure how that could be B/W.
> 
> Note that if you use UEFI the screen will be higher resolution, for example [1].
> 
> Though it has always seemed to be a fixed window size, just a lower resolution with Legacy BIOS.
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> [1]
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> > On Jun 19, 2025, at 5:09 PM, David Kerr <Da...@Ke...> wrote:
> > 
> > Running Astlinux in a VM and using VNC (Proxmox) console, the text display is a very confined 80x24 and black-and-white.  Every other text-based VM that I fire up, I can resize the VNC window and the number of rows/columns expands, and text colors are shown.
> > 
> > Is it possible to have Astlinux do the same?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > David
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