virt-manager - reduce guest machine screen height

Question

I am running my Centos7 guest on a Ubuntu 14.04 host machine. On bringing up the guest machine, the guest machine's screen height is more than the host machine's screen size. So, scroll bars appear on right side of virt-manager screen. But, in the command prompt, navigation using the scroll bar to see the top/bottom of the screen is difficult for me.

How can i reduce the guest machine's screen height and make it less than or equal to the host machine's height?

The default guest resolution is 1024x768. Have you got a very small monitor? — Michael Hampton, Apr 25 '15 at 18:21
yes. It is a dell laptop whose monitor is possibly 20 to 25% lesser than normal monitors. i couldn't get the exact dimensions. — Saravana Kumar, Apr 26 '15 at 02:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '15 at 16:48

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You had to lower the virtualized display resolution - ie the resolution at which your virtual machine runs. Set it to a lower value (for example, 800x600).

answered Apr 25 '15 at 16:48

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`virt-manager` doesn't have any options related to display resolution. all i see on the left side is, `Display VNC`, `Video Cirrus`, `Tablet`. At least these sub-menus don't have this option. – Saravana Kumar Apr 26 '15 at 02:22

virt-manager - reduce guest machine screen height

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