After some observation, it appears this highly useful effect is observed when using ssh. So the combination is actually when using ssh with qemu-kvm, and not to do with tmux directly, I just happened to be using a tmux pane at the time. Apologies for the unintended misdirection. FYI.
Ciao Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 08:27:00AM +0200, Richard Foley wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm not sure if this is intentional, but it's useful all the same. When I > > start up a VM (raw VDS image), I usually get a new GUI window. However, if > > I'm running under tmux, (presumably because there is no GUI element), the > > VM console get placed in a *new* linux text console, reachable under > > ctl-alt-8. At first I thought I'd lost the VM, however, it's actually > > quite useful to have the VM running but not otherwise getting in the way > > of my other windows/screens. This is probably fairly obvious, and well > > known behaviour, but it's new to me, so I thought I'd share it. Just FYI. > > > > Ciao > > > > Richard > > -- > > Richard Foley > > Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen! > > http://www.rfi.net/books.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users