How to enable scrolling in Virtual Machine?

Question

I am using a virtual Machine in VMware Player 5.01 of Ubuntu 12.04 without a graphical interface and I don't have scroll enabled is there any way to enable it ? Or to use something like a key combo to scroll up and down :)

Answer 1

Yes, there is¹, but unless you have a valid reason to do so, don't even bother using the VMware Player window for command-line stuff. Set up networking and use SSH instead. It's way more powerful than using an hardware-emulated display and graphics driver just for some plain commands.

You might also be interested in using byobu (with or without using SSH):

• How to open a new tab in the server command line?

  For related stuff to scrolling in command-line operations.

• using a byobu and disconnected session how to see message on screen

  which effectively is a question on how to scroll in Byobu.

A question on Unix&Linux very similar to yours:

• small screen in virtualbox installed OSs

  VirtualBox is not different from VMware regarding your question.

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¹ _{If you really insist on scrolling in a regular TTY (has many flaws): Shift + PageUp}

_{And copy/paste within the same TTY: sudo apt-get install gpm to get a mouse pointer.}

_{But really, those two above are not for daily use!}