After establishing a virtual terminal session, the ~. character sequence can be entered in the terminal window to terminate it, or the rmvterm command can be used to force the session to be closed.
A partition can only have one open virtual terminal session at a time.
| -m | The name of the managed system which has the partition for which to open the virtual terminal session. The name may either be the user-defined name for the managed system, or be in the form tttt-mmm*ssssssss, where tttt is the machine type, mmm is the model, and ssssssss is the serial number of the managed system. The tttt-mmm*ssssssss form must be used if there are multiple managed systems with the same user-defined name. |
| -p |
The name of the partition for which to open the virtual terminal session.
You must either use this option to specify the name of the partition, or use the --id option to specify the partition’s ID. The -p and the --id options are mutually exclusive. |
| --id |
The ID of the partition for which to open the virtual terminal session.
You must either use this option to specify the ID of the partition, or use the -p option to specify the partition’s name. The --id and the -p options are mutually exclusive. |
| --help | Display the help text for this command and exit. |
mkvterm -m mySystem -p p1
Open a virtual terminal session for the partition with an ID of 1:
mkvterm -m 9406-570*12345678 --id 1
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| Linux | MKVTERM (1) | August 2004 |