For a while I’ve been using Ubuntu 20.10 as a machine that I setup to run in Hyper-V. However, the default screen resolution of a virtual machine package is 1024×768.
Whilst this is all well and good for short term use, it can become quite tiresome and cause considerable eye strain with long-term use.
Good News! With a few simple commands in the terminal, this setting can be changed to a more suitable resolution.
Firstly, open the terminal and enter the following command:
Sudo or root privileges are required to run this, otherwise the grub file opens as Read-Only and cannot be changed. Press ‘i’, this will change vim to ‘insert’ mode and allow changes to be made.
There are two lines in the grub file that need to be updated for the resolution changes to take effect.
Locate ‘grub_cmdline_linux_default=’ and ‘grub_cmdline_linux=’. Once you have found those two lines, which are located directly next to each other; update the end of each entry to add “quiet splash video=hyperv_fb:1920×1080”.
Change the resolution at the end to meet your requirements.
After updating the file, press ‘esc’ followed by ‘:wq!’ (without the quotation marks), this will close vim whilst writing and saving the changes.
To complete the changes to the file, it is now time to update grub. This can be done by using the command ‘sudo update-grub’.
All the necessary sections have been updated, next time the machine reboots, it will reboot with the new resolution in place.
