This was seen on virtual box as well.

I ran through this using virtualbox - default resolution was 1024x768, so things looked fine there.  However, I changed the resolution to 800x600 and reran firstboot and did confirm that the GUI does *not* render properly at that resolution.  I will check with a VMWare install to verify the resolution there, but I am of the opinion that we cannot use the existing GUI for a resolution of 800x600.  There is simply too much in the interface to fit into such a small resolution.

The VMWare license seems to have expired for the host that I was using, so have no real way to test an install on VMWare currently.  However, I did confirm that 800x600 needs some work as stated previously...

Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

I tested this on vmware ESX 4; the screen resolution was more than sufficient to display the entire subscription-manager firstboot window. I believe the detected video driver was "VMWare SVGA II", and I was connecting via VNC.

Given the testing. I am going to close this as not a bug. It appears that the modern systems will support greater that 800x600.

During our testing, we did not use VNC to connect to the ESX host, but the VMware vSphere client. I would expect more people to use this method, so the problem would still exist.

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> During our testing, we did not use VNC to connect to the ESX host, but the
> VMware vSphere client. I would expect more people to use this method, so the
> problem would still exist.

To be more precise, I accessed the virtual machine console with the vSphere client. That method only seems to provide 800x600 during firstboot.

ok.. will re-open and verify with vSphere.

Javier,

I'm having some trouble reproducing your setup. Are you using vSphere 3.5 or 4? When I run this with vSphere 4.0, the resolution is set properly (as long as I'm using the automatic setting in the VM's video settings).

Strange... I am testing it on vSphere 4, ESXi 4.0.0 build 219382 to be more precise. I have done some additional tests with different VM video settings:

- Default, which is 4 MB video RAM
- Auto-detect video settings
- Force 16 MB of video RAM

In all cases I got the same result, with a 800x600 screen. The VM was created for RHEL 5 (64-bit), as this version does not seem to officially support RHEL 6.

Javier,

That is strange indeed. I'm using ESX 4.0.0 261974, and vsphere 4.0.0 258672, and it works with autodetect, default, and 16mb. I haven't tried with ESXi, though. I am looking for that now. I only get the 800x600 behavior when I set my VM to use 1.37MB of video memory, which is the minimum.

Can you take a screenshot of the first 800x600 screen you get? Also, if you're using an ISO, can you send me the filename so I can try to replicate the issue with that?

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Subscription Manager as seen on VMware VM

The ISO file name is rhel-entitlement-beta-6-x86_64-dvd.iso, and I have just attached the screenshot. This is the same for every video memory configuration I have tried.

Javier,

Good news, I was able to replicate the issue. I am not sure why it's not resizing out of 800x600, it seems like it should be defaulting to a higher resolution if the video memory is there. I will look into it more.

I'm going to close this one out. the screens now work fine in 800x600 on el 5. They have some other minor problems, but i'll open new bugs for those.