incus console - Incus documentation
Description: Attach to instance consoles Synopsis: [96;1;4mDescription:[0;22;24m, Attach to instance consoles,, This command allows you to interact with the boot console of an instance, as well as retrieve pa...

Skip to content
Back to top
View this page

# `incus console`

Attach to instance consoles

## Synopsis

[96;1;4mDescription:[0;22;24m
Attach to instance consoles
This command allows you to interact with the boot console of an instance
as well as retrieve past log entries from it.

    incus console [2m[[22m[32m<remote>[0m:[2m][22m[32m<instance>[0m [flags]

## Options

      -f, --force      Forces a connection to the console, even if there is already an active session
          --show-log   Retrieve the instance's console log
      -t, --type       Type of connection to establish: 'console' for serial console, 'vga' for SPICE graphical output (default "console")

## Options inherited from parent commands

          --debug          Show all debug messages
          --explain        If the command is valid, explain its parsed arguments instead of running it
          --force-local    Force using the local unix socket
      -h, --help           Print help
          --project        Override the source project
      -q, --quiet          Don't show progress information
          --sub-commands   Use with help or --help to view sub-commands
      -v, --verbose        Show all information messages
          --version        Print version number

## SEE ALSO

- incus - Command line client for Incus