Re: [Astlinux-devel] Console in a VM

[David K. <da...@ke...>]

Lonnie,
  I have been traveling for a couple of weeks so just got around to trying
this.  I did a shutdown -h in astlinux, changed proxmox settings for the VM
to use UEFI, restarted the VM and bad things happened.  First, opening the
console just displayed a message that *Guest has not initialized the
display (yet)* and it just stuck like that.  Worse, I could not ssh in...
and it never responded to pings.  So I shutdown the VM again from proxmox,
changed the bios back to the SeaBIOS, and rebooted.  And it failed...
console reported that it could not find a bootable disk, it tried to boot
from the network.

Fortunately I have proxmox doing a daily backup/snapshot of the VM and I
was able to restore that and get going again.

I have a feeling that a fresh install with UEFI right from the start may be
required?

David.



On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...>
wrote:

> > 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
> >
> > <image.png>
> >
> > 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]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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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