Richard ...
If you are new to VM, then there is another important point
you need to be aware of. The virtual machine's console device can be
presented either as a 3215 (line-mode) or as a 3270 (full-screen).
There's a third option, but to give details would go beyond
what I can say with confidence.
You want "conmode=3270" but you also want
TERM CONMODE 3270
You need for both VM and Linux to agree
that your virtual console is working like a 3270.
Linux happily uses a 3270 presented as a 3215 for its console.
You're asking for a 3270 presented roughly as-is, correct?
So you need to get VM and Linux to agree about the kind of
data stream traffic that will be passed via that "console".
What will happen is that Linux will do the emulation
of line-mode activity. Linux will perform that task of making the
3270 look like plain text on /dev/console. But when you're in
TERM CONMODE 3215, VM does the job of making the 3270 look like a
3215, for which Linux has much less conversion work. (Mostly just
the character set; otherwise it's ordinary line-mode I/O.)
-- R;
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