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Simple issue. Is it possible in vSphere to view 2 separate terminal windows into the same VM? I know you can switch between terminal instances using ALT+Right/ALT+Left, but I can't find a way to be viewing two separate terminals at the same time.

This is necessary because I need to modify network states in one terminal while watching a log in another. SSH isn't an option because when I bring the network down, the SSH connection would be severed.

EDIT: I should point out I have no desktop environment on the guest. It's a Linux Server OS.

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I don't know if this is possible in VSphere, but maybe the split screen functionality of screen or tmux will help you with this.

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  • How would I go about that? I should point out I have no desktop environment on the guest. – ewok Dec 15 '14 at 19:03
  • I assume you have a Linux guest. You just install `screen` or `tmux` into it, start it and split the screen as described in the manual page of the tool (I recommend `tmux` for this, it has better split screen support). Both tools work in the terminal. – Sven Dec 15 '14 at 19:05
  • using `tmux`, it's `CTRL+b, "` to split the screen horizontally. Thanks! – ewok Dec 15 '14 at 19:14
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Do you mean can you have two vsphere client/web-clients viewing the same console/frame-buffer at the same time? if then yes, just open them up, you can have 8 in fact. The only downside is that it does moan about it with a message at the top of each screen if two or more sessions are active.

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