Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 24 February 2023 10:03:31 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > >>> So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails,

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > >> echo "$DISPLAY" > > > > So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's > > running inside

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 Have

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-22 Thread Albert S.
My thanks to David Wright and Max Nikulin. That was a good wake-up call. Most of my VMs are safe, but it was interesting to learn what was really going on. ForwardX11 was enabled for the ssh session. Initially I imagined vncviewer (to the KVM host though ssh) was the one causing the problem,

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-18 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 But in a terminal which is running on the host Debian

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/02/2023 08:57, Albert S. wrote: If you think I issued the xrandr command on the wrong machine, that was not the case: history makes it clear. Behavior depends on the DISPLAY environment value at the moment when xrandr was executed. Likely it was pointed not to vnc Xserver, but to the

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Fri 17 Feb 2023 at 20:57:38 (-0500), Albert S. wrote: > Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both > monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am > wondering how to explain that. > > Below you will find the detailed description. [ … ] > But my

Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread Albert S.
Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am wondering how to explain that. Below you will find the detailed description. I run KVM on a Debian 11 server, which has no monitor or keyboard attached to