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If you haven't yet run into emacs's frames, you may find that useful, unless you explicitly want to also use the Linux virtual consoles for other reasons. In a GUI environment, emacs frames are normally represented by another X11/Wayland window. In a TUI environment, they look kinda like a virtual console.
Each frame contains a set of emacs windows (what a lot of present-day GUI software calls "panes") laid out to display whatever buffers you want. You can have a buffer shown in a window in multiple frames if you want.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Frames.html
Some basic operations:
C-x 5 2Creates a new frameC-x 5 oSwitches to another frameC-x 5 0Destroys current frameYou can also produce a similar effect by running an emacs instance in daemon mode, and then using emacsclient to attach to that daemon instance on different Linux virtual consoles, if you prefer the multiple-VC approach. One emacs instance and set of buffers, but can have different windows in different layouts showing them and switch between them.