chvt 1 Virtualbox

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chvt 1 Virtualbox

Post by Mattyboy »

So, you're in a VM, can't use the keyboard shortcut ctrl,alt +f1 to get to chvt *

Tried jumping via terminal

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mintman@admin1-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M:~$ chvt 1
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
mintman@admin1-To-be-filled-by-O-E-
How do I open the virtual terminal if I can't use the shortcut? Man page isn't exactly filled with enlightening help :lol:
Cheers.

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System:    Host: admin1-To-be-filled-by-O-E-M Kernel: 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.7 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
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