How do I change the console resolution of Ubuntu 9.10 Server running on VMWare?

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Published on 2009-12-17T20:39:55Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 18:03 UTC
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I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 Server in VMWare Fusion (on a Mac) and I'm having trouble changing the console resolution. It seems to be stuck on 640x480.

Ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub2, so there is no /etc/grub/menu.lst.

I tried adding vga=791 to the kernel parameters (both during boot and by adding it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub and then running update-grub2) and neither had any effect.

When using vga=791, grub says that vga=791 is depreciated and that I should use gfxpayload=1024x768x16,1024x768 instead. However, that also does absolutely nothing.

I have a feeling this problem is specific to running Ubuntu 9.10 in VMWare, but Google hasn't turned up anything.

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