Thanks, SSH is what I usually do but there are cases where the guest is
offline (for maintenance).
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Kees Nuyt <k.n...@zonnet.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 09:41:57 +0100, you wrote:
>
> > Sometimes I need to work with terminal (text) only. This is Linux guest
> on
> > Windows and unfortunately the screen is very small compared to current
> > screen sizes. Is there any way I can make text screen stretch over full
> > screen?
>
> Not really, although you can try to play with video mode parameters for
> the kernel in the bootstrap (grub, usually).
>
> The better and common solution is to run a terminal program (e.g. PuTTY)
> in Windows and connect that to the guest with ssh. Make sure the guest
> has sshd configured and running.
>
> A few advantages :
> * resizable terminal window
> * many more fonts to choose from
> * easy to configure
> * cut and paste between PuTTY and other windows programs
>
> In theory you could use telnet, but it is insecure and lacks all the
> nice feautures of ssh.
>
> > Thanks, Peter
>
> --
> Groet, Cordialement, Pozdrawiam, Regards,
>
> Kees Nuyt
>
>
>
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