Sunday, January 25, 2009

20090125 - VT support in OpenSolaris

Ok, so it's about 20 years after everyone else did this (SCO, Linux, BSDI, 386BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, even Novell), but at least Sun are now doing it!

Here's how:

# svcadm enable vtdaemon
# svcadm enable console-login:vt2
# svcadm enable console-login:vt3
# svcadm enable console-login:vt4
# svcadm enable console-login:vt5
# svcadm enable console-login:vt6
# svccfg -s vtdaemon setprop general/enabled=true
# svccfg -s vtdaemon setprop options/hotkeys=true
# svccfg -s vtdaemon setprop options/secure=false
# svcadm refresh vtdaemon
# svcadm restart vtdaemon