I can NEVER remember this, and every time I re-install CentOS in a VM I have to go searching. If you want the console size to be larger in a vm add vga=791 (for 1024×768) to the end of the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf. The VESA values (for linux) are here

I have been using the minimal iso (CentOS-6.0-x86_64-minimal.iso) to install CentOS 6. I wanted to add a GUI to my vm, but I could not find easy documentation showing how to add a GUI, or Gnome in this case, to a CentOS 6 minimal install. I was not looking for the smallest X windows install,…