In my virtual machines, both Linux and FreeBSD, the TTY (controlled by agetty under Linux; can be opened by pressing Host+Fn where n=1,2,3,...) window size is tiny (720x400), compared to the resolution of my screen (1920x1080). Is there a way to adjust this? VirtualBox guest additions are installed, yet still a tiny TTY size.
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Josh Pinto
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If I understand correctly, you may be looking for the `vga` setting for the entry in your grub config. This question may be of some help: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107479/how-do-you-pass-vga-vesa-modes-with-grub2#107554 – Christian Gibbons Nov 09 '18 at 20:47
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Thanks, although that does have the limitation of not being easily applicable to FreeBSD systems, given this other, presently unanswered, question of mine - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/480829/how-to-create-a-grub-entry-for-a-freebsd-on-zfs-installation. – Josh Pinto Nov 09 '18 at 20:55
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Tried that and `hwinfo --framebuffer` returned nothing, so I cannot set a resolution for `GRUB_GFXMODE`. – Josh Pinto Nov 09 '18 at 21:12