OpenSolaris

1. Project: Virtual Console
   1. Announcements
   2. Events
   3. News
   4. Blogs
   5. Discussions
   6. Observers
   7. Files
   8. Leaders
   9. Downloads

OpenSolaris Project: Virtual Console

View the leaders for this project
Project Observers

Endorsing communities

Device Drivers
OS/Net (ON)
X Window System

Introduction

The virtual console project will provide virtual console feature to Solaris. This will improve user experience extremely,
especailly for developers and administrators.

Goal

• multiple consoles
  
• virtual console interface for switch between Xserver and consoles
  

Status

Investigating

An initial basic prototype:
(You can download the binaries for early try.)

• Users have one system (hard) console (/dev/console) and six virtual consoles now, switching between them
  by pressing "Alt + F#" (# is 1 to 6).
  
• On x86, you can switch between consoles and Xorg:
  From consoles to Xorg: press "Alt + F7"
  From Xorg to virtual consoles: press "Ctrl + Alt + F#" (# is 1 to 6)
  
• /dev/console serves as the fixed system hard console, that is, any output via /dev/console and all the kernel
  messages will go to the system console.
  

Documents

• virtual console spec

• virtual console manpage

Discussion

• mailto: vconsole dash discuss at opensolaris dot org