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# Serial Port Terminal View

The Terminal View in VirtualProg allows you to interact with a virtual machine's serial console directly from the VirtualProg UI.

> 📸 Screenshot:

## 🧭 Accessing Terminal View

To open the serial terminal view:

- Start the virtual machine.
- In the Virtual Machine Window, click the Serial Port icon from the top-right toolbar.
- Select the serial port configured in Console Mode to launch the terminal.

> 🔗 For a full view of this toolbar, see Virtual Machine View.

## 🖥 Functionality

- Displays the live output of the guest operating system's serial console.
- You can log in and interact just as you would on a physical terminal.
- Works especially well for headless or server-mode Linux VMs that expose `hvc0`, `ttyS0`, or similar.

## 🛠 Configuration Requirement

Ensure that:

- A serial port is added in the VM configuration in Console mode.
- The guest OS is configured to output to the correct serial device.

> 💡 Use this terminal for debugging, monitoring, or working with VMs without graphical interfaces.