Console features
The console device drivers support several types of terminal devices.
- HMC applets
- You can use two applets.
- Operating System Messages
- This applet provides a line-mode terminal for Linux® in LPAR mode. See Figure 1 for an example.
- Integrated ASCII Console
- This applet provides a full-screen mode terminal for Linux in LPAR mode and for Linux on z/VM®.
- 3270 terminal
- This terminal can be based on physical 3270
terminal hardware or a 3270 terminal emulation.
z/VM can use the 3270 terminal as a 3270 device or perform a protocol translation and use it as a 3215 device. As a 3215 device it is a line-mode terminal for the United States code page (037).
- virsh command on the KVM host
- For Linux on KVM, you can access the console through a virsh command on the KVM host. See Using virsh on a KVM host.
The console device drivers support these terminals as output devices for Linux kernel messages.
