Am I obliged to use SSH in order to open a terminal towards my Vagrant VM?

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Is there any other way?

What's wrong with SSH and what do you want instead? I'm asking this because this question would be far more practical if asked as "How to connect to a Vagrant VM through <...>?" It likely depends on a box used though... — D-side, Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 12:35
I dont know, it just feels weird to have multiple SSH tabs open - that's my use case, I got a node.js server which blocks my terminal when I run it, and then I gotta open a new terminal and re-SSH to the VM. I guess it's not a problem but I'm wondering if I can launch some remote console or something — George Katsanos, Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 13:43
You can have multiple tabs in control of one SSH session, look at screen, tmux and byobu. I use byobu myself. — D-side, Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 14:11
You can do anything you like with your VM. It's a normal virtual machine running, so you can telnet it, run it with a gui or do whatever you do on other servers. I personally stick to ssh with tmux, having two or three ssh connections to my box open beside each other. — Sgoettschkes, Commented Oct 27, 2014 at 9:28
just to specify my HOST os is OSX and my VM is a headless VM (no Gui) — George Katsanos, Commented Oct 27, 2014 at 9:51

Prashant Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-27 11:15:42Z

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You can enable GUI for your VM.

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
  v.gui = true
end

answered Oct 27, 2014 at 11:15

Prashant Kumar

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wouldn't that complicate things / make the VM heavier, slower?
– George Katsanos
Commented Oct 27, 2014 at 20:43

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