If your text had referred to a physical, terminal kind of device, the term 'console' would have been a fairly goed translation in my opinion. It seems fairly obvious, however, that this not the case here. Unix-based operating systems feature so-called virtual consoles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console , for instance. Your text suggests something similar.

Perhaps you could use the term here, although:
1. it might be going a bridge too far in terms of faithfulness to your source text (interpretive translation)
2. the term is rather 'unwieldy' in combinations like 'PC virtual console'.

You could deal with the problem of point 2 by using the expression once and further simply referring to ´PC console´, for instance.

IMHO, it will only be a matter of time before the current predominant understanding of 'console' as a physical/hardware device will broaden to include a more software-oriented meaning as in ' virtual console'.