Display resolution

zeev · January 5, 2025, 4:22pm

Hi
I have installed Endeavour Os KDE Plasma as a VM under virt-manager.
However the resolution is not good and the resolution I need is not in the resolution list.

Can anyone tell me how to do it?

ajgringo619 · January 5, 2025, 4:47pm

Did you install spice-vdagent on the guest? What happens when you run the guest in full-screen?

zeev · January 5, 2025, 4:59pm

No, I did not. I’m very new to Arch and derivatives and I don’t know how to do it.

ajgringo619 · January 5, 2025, 5:34pm

spice-vdagent has nothing to do with Arch; it’s for VMs under virt-manager to enable auto screen resizing and shared clipboard. Install it on the guest (yay -S spice-vdagent), then reboot the guest.

joekamprad · January 5, 2025, 6:06pm

EndeavourOS is adding all needed vm support packages automatically, we support vmware virtualbox and qemu too.
You will see in the vm → yay -Qs spice

yay -Qs virt

Check if vdagent is running:

systemctl status spice-vdagentd

should get triggered automatically by its socket…