To set the desired screen resolution under Hyper-V.

An icon with a gear called PC settings will appear in your search. It’s way easy to work with grubby than editing “/etc/default/grub” for example and running update-grub. Click on the start button.The Windows button is in the bottom left corner of your screen. How to fix Resolution too low to run this app, Change your screen resolution in windows 8 Well, it is wise to mention that before trying this fix, you can try to update your graphics in the Device manager just to see if it fixes the problem. What I didn’t liked after the installation was the screen resolution that the machine was set to (1152×864) with now way of chaining it either from KDE System Settings or Hyper-V virtual machine properties.Īfter a bit of digging I learned that there is a frame buffer driver for Hyper-V and that CentOS unlike other distributions I have worked with, provides a tool called grubby for managing grub.cfg. Making a decision to migrate or stay with Windows among other things is testing various aspects of the distribution such as how things works out of the box, installing various development tools / applications required for my area of work, etc.įor testing, CentOS 7 was installed on Hyper-V virtual machine. Why CentOS? I particularly like that, it’s one of the few GNU/Linux distributions out there providing LTS, which means I will have a stable development machine for at least 2 – 3 more years.

I’m thinking of doing a switch to GNU/Linux as my desktop OS yet again! ( My last GNU/Linux desktop experience lasted for 5 years, then back to Windows.) This time giving CentOS 7 a try.

Windows 8 change resolution