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(https://stackoverflow.co/labs/)   Learn more about Labs   (https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/Img/apple-touch-icon.png?v=c78bd457575a) (/questions/15255070/how-do-you-scroll-up-down-on-the-console-of-a-linux-vm) How do you scroll up/down on the console of a Linux VM [closed]  (/questions/ask) Ask Question     (2013-03-06 18:23:37Z) Asked 11 years, 10 months ago  Modified (?lastactivity) (2021-03-04 10:24:28Z) 3 years, 10 months ago  (Viewed 542,334 times) Viewed 542k times         This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear  (70:3:31e,16:1d1173eab8f5473f,10:1737032332,16:4de625c4614f6d9e,8:15255070,c4de49c02ca31be913d29331227f06f6f1b2ca1486124dbd35830611ad25c142) 240  (This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:df406ac54ac128fd,10:1737032332,16:872f6417f9e7e068,8:15255070,0c8f2d6acd1ae062d3995747b45f9f37265c31f2bb76002b3042c7907b65597c)      Save this question.  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Which terminal emulator? – (/users/1627348/teppic) (8,185 reputation) teppic  Commented (2013-03-06 18:55:42Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Mar 6, 2013 at 18:55      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   I am just accessing the linux server from a VM console. – (/users/1951898/jane-doh) (2,903 reputation) Jane Doh  Commented (2013-03-06 19:07:54Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Mar 6, 2013 at 19:07      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   Is that a vmware thing? If you're not using a regular terminal emulator, you won't have terminal functions like scrollback. – (/users/1627348/teppic) (8,185 reputation) teppic  Commented (2013-03-06 20:50:05Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Mar 6, 2013 at 20:50        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments.)  |  (Expand to show all comments on this post) Show 1 more comment         15 Answers 15   Sorted by:  (/questions/15255070/how-do-you-scroll-up-down-on-the-console-of-a-linux-vm?answertab=scoredesc#tab-top) Reset to default   (scoredesc) Highest score (default)  (trending) Trending (recent votes count more)  (modifieddesc) Date modified (newest first)  (createdasc) Date created (oldest first)            This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:c7303954526d4b84,10:1737032332,16:da98b5ac9e26e061,8:15255305,29d2920590979e2caa48e55076c1459aea4d2fa5ae90d7c9ec9960fc4efe337e) 271  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:bd95c0a792ea302c,10:1737032332,16:275c3db68f65714d,8:15255305,daf25bc363b3df1d4fd2bdac2119a9df8ecc8bb8c01ce40e1a31e2101357acdf)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/15255305/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    SHIFT +Page Up and SHIFT +Page Down . If it doesn't work try this and then it should:  Go the terminal program, and make sureEdit/Profile Preferences/Scrolling/Scrollback/Unlimited is checked. The exact location of this option might be somewhere different though, I see that you are using Redhat.   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OP was talking about stuff like gnome terminal – (/users/845915/sdaffa23fdsf) (307 reputation) sdaffa23fdsf  Commented (2015-01-21 13:48:16Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jan 21, 2015 at 13:48   (this comment was edited 1 time)        (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   Cool, thanks! How would you go about setting the scrollback size from a native ('real') terminal? – (/users/1460422/starbeamrainbowlabs) (6,106 reputation) starbeamrainbowlabs  Commented (2018-01-03 19:18:41Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jan 3, 2018 at 19:18      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 4   Only the first line of this answer is useful on the Linux console, the rest might be useful on a GUI terminal like gnome-terminal, though unlimited is not needed. – (/users/450917/gringo-suave) (31,801 reputation) Gringo Suave  Commented (2018-09-20 16:22:43Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Sep 20, 2018 at 16:22        @GringoSuave gets it. – (/users/982919/daniel-baker) (158 reputation) Daniel Baker  Commented (2018-11-12 21:59:30Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Nov 12, 2018 at 21:59        For those of you who didn't find it work, don't forget to turn NumLock off – (/users/7494877/irfandy-j) (1,444 reputation) Irfandy J.  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(reputation score) 4,614 (3 gold badges)  3  3 gold badges (41 silver badges)  41  41 silver badges (51 bronze badges)  51  51 bronze badges     answered (2013-11-16 14:52:33Z) Nov 16, 2013 at 14:52   (/users/2999552/lauren) (Lauren's user avatar)    (/users/2999552/lauren) Lauren Lauren (reputation score) 1,536 (1 gold badge)  1  1 gold badge (12 silver badges)  12  12 silver badges (16 bronze badges)  16  16 bronze badges        8 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 4   Works well on CentOS vm in Mac host – (/users/813730/miro-markaravanes) (3,367 reputation) Miro Markaravanes  Commented (2014-09-10 00:20:05Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 10, 2014 at 0:20      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   Thank you. Works for me (Ubuntu Server inside VirtualBox VM on Mac OSX10.10) – (/users/114140/chris-jacob) (12,256 reputation) Chris Jacob  Commented (2014-12-29 23:39:20Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Dec 29, 2014 at 23:39      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   Thanks for this Lauren, and thanks @anizzomc.  I was on my macbook pro running Ubuntu server in virtual box and was having a heck of a time trying to figure this out. – (/users/1316767/caseyb) (325 reputation) CaseyB  Commented (2015-02-22 21:30:32Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Feb 22, 2015 at 21:30   (this comment was edited 1 time)        (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   As the comments show, this is the only correct answer. Everyone else is talking about terminal emulators, which is not what the OP is asking. It is the only thing which worked for me on Ubuntu Server 14.04 emulation in Parallels on Macbook Pro – (/users/1143539/roobie-nuby) (1,439 reputation) Roobie Nuby  Commented (2016-01-04 13:55:09Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jan 4, 2016 at 13:55      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   that's simply because your PageUp/PageDown keys are mapped to Fn+Up/Down, it won't work in other keyboards. And Fn is not a real key that the OS recognizes (except on Macs) – (/users/995714/phuclv) (41,698 reputation) phuclv  Commented (2018-06-17 06:00:56Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jun 17, 2018 at 6:00        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.)  |  (Expand to show all comments on this post) Show 3 more comments         This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:1b66eaa26471d3ed,10:1737032332,16:58b5f33066fcd516,8:21037435,a5f4ca9cca068c7cbdeb0141c7db7824d709744a11f9bb5ed3d98c431b5ce75d) 94  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:0b97f72a9b1a2410,10:1737032332,16:3425e4a8812c33a8,8:21037435,cfc1f07044f0d32eb4731958628cc47718143228bd6966b729d592988579f52b)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/21037435/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    Alternative: you can use the less command. Type in console:  "your_command" | less   This will allow you to scroll with the up and down arrow keys. Basically your output has been piped with the less command.   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First you press scroll lock to get into paging mode and then use plain arrows and page up /page down to scroll. Press scroll lock again to get back to typing mode. – (/users/637669/arrowd) (34,381 reputation) arrowd  Commented (2017-06-21 18:30:59Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Jun 21, 2017 at 18:30      (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 4   This is the only solution that works on headless servers. Other solutions are for servers with GUI. – (/users/2128554/learner) (316 reputation) learner  Commented (2020-03-26 10:30:37Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Mar 26, 2020 at 10:30        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) 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Works well. – (/users/4642212/sebastian-simon) (19,474 reputation) Sebastian Simon  Commented (2017-12-31 17:45:43Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Dec 31, 2017 at 17:45        Believe this requires CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK to be enabled on the linux console. – (/users/450917/gringo-suave) (31,801 reputation) Gringo Suave  Commented (2018-09-20 16:10:49Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Sep 20, 2018 at 16:10   (this comment was edited 1 time)          (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:5d59acf90c47f889,10:1737032332,16:3a46d8aff77f97c4,8:15295740,76e00e3bcf034486d214e56cedd89cc833a1feffbff2eddb941985ba14f5de12) 25  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:7ea483e6e43f23b5,10:1737032332,16:99485893cf183908,8:15295740,8868ef07cd80a5784671e5c3464ffbf33743e54fe6763934594565e65ade111c)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/15295740/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    SHIFT + Page Up and SHIFT + Page Down are the correct keys to operate on the linux (virtual) console, but vmware console doesn't have those terminal settings.  The virtual console has fixed scroll back size, it sounds like it's limited to video memory size according to this Linux virtual console (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-18.html) Scrolling behavior documentation.     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screen

# This starts the copy mode you can use to scroll
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# Now use the arrows to scroll

# To exit copy mode, do
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Press q to quit scroll mode. Alternatively you can press Ctrl -b PgUp to go directly into copy mode and scroll one page up (which is what it sounds like you will want most of the time)    (/a/35313568) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     (/posts/35313568/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:e0d1cfa027fd9cca,10:1737032332,16:8d1803d5b408d69b,8:35313568,6af300047265baedf5b7e1e3e139ae4e4e71ad351cead167b3682e202a20e3c0)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/35313568/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2020-06-20 09:12:55Z) Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12    (/users/-1/community) (Community's user avatar)    (/users/-1/community) Community (Community Bot — not a real person. Replies to this bot are not monitored.) 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VM Ubuntu on a Mac...fn + shift + up/down arrows   (/a/46556492) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 3.0) CC BY-SA 3.0     (/posts/46556492/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:0dd9d96e7d29e5dc,10:1737032332,16:d8bac00047e384bc,8:46556492,5540998ce2fe74a052165ef17cdbeaacfdbc836baea18096b43c7916d3e44be9)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       answered (2017-10-04 03:21:06Z) Oct 4, 2017 at 3:21   (/users/7338746/duderweb2) (duderweb2's user avatar)    (/users/7338746/duderweb2) duderweb2 duderweb2 (reputation score) 101 (1 silver badge)  1  1 silver badge (3 bronze badges)  3  3 bronze badges        1 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 1   this is (https://stackoverflow.com/a/20019785/995714) exactly the same as Lauren's answer above, but with the OS mentioned  – (/users/995714/phuclv) (41,698 reputation) phuclv  Commented (2018-07-03 10:54:27Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Jul 3, 2018 at 10:54        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:de91e8a5acc3f637,10:1737032332,16:e20667e037401973,8:38431117,374f75bb6b35a5668c2ec7018bf6d584803f4883ef3891fd8e6e3cb8a67ec9f1) 5  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:6663b8fdac928b40,10:1737032332,16:2d6fc49ac8290939,8:38431117,0dd8dffbff5288a69f3fc57a98e09b6c6faddf8426497251c941314cb0b93cc4)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/38431117/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    I ran into the same problem with VMWare workstation with Ubuntu guest, turns out VmWare doesn't support scrolling back up from the server view. What I did was to install x GUI, then run xterm from there. For some reason it runs the same, but lets you scroll the normal ways. Hope this helps future readers in VmWare virtual boxes.   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Another might be to install sshd and log in remotely. – (/users/450917/gringo-suave) (31,801 reputation) Gringo Suave  Commented (2018-09-20 16:12:41Z, License: CC BY-SA 4.0) Sep 20, 2018 at 16:12        (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.) Add a comment |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)          This answer is useful  (70:3:31e,16:7fa477c8bb27acb1,10:1737032332,16:0e743f8c38038304,8:54099884,86a2aa62a4fc82e675273a54a79a8365d673dbc0cc670922cf730eadce12c6ba) 3  (This answer is not useful)    (70:3:31e,16:fdd27b8b277eb0b2,10:1737032332,16:52fed89ed6ebb55d,8:54099884,224c08504d84506452907cecc36bb3f7235ed4d487487fd16d3638160fdd459c)      Save this answer.  (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (/posts/54099884/timeline)    Show activity on this post.    In some VPS hostings (like linode ) you have to click Ctrl+A and then ESC . Exit with double ESC too.   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Fn + Up/Down can scroll Terminal in Mac OS X 10.11   (/a/34632650) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/34632650/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:1dccdbd99f92ab30,10:1737032332,16:8681b9016d083d7c,8:34632650,c68f74b63ecd0516fe8d94a1cfaa617343d4c6a380e47f086ab8fb1c207b5233)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/34632650/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2019-03-25 13:23:53Z) Mar 25, 2019 at 13:23    (/users/7404943/barbsan) (barbsan's user avatar)    (/users/7404943/barbsan) barbsan (reputation score) 3,458 (11 gold badges)  11  11 gold badges (23 silver badges)  23  23 silver badges (29 bronze badges)  29  29 bronze badges     answered (2016-01-06 12:00:41Z) Jan 6, 2016 at 12:00   (/users/1764735/likid1412) (likid1412's user avatar)    (/users/1764735/likid1412) likid1412 likid1412 (reputation score) 1,129 (10 silver badges)  10  10 silver badges (15 bronze badges)  15  15 bronze badges           (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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Like you normally do.    (/a/49596561) (Short permalink to this answer) Share  Share a link to this answer     Copy link (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (The current license for this post: CC BY-SA 4.0) CC BY-SA 4.0     (/posts/49596561/edit) () Improve this answer  Follow (70:3:31e,16:663c0d939a6881e9,10:1737032332,16:3d2ef4dee5fecfb6,8:49596561,d6c11badc3de11fdca0eebb96f8e0ed432402db568337f79ae86f1cf8e8cdd5b)  Follow this answer to receive notifications       (/posts/49596561/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2021-03-04 10:24:28Z) Mar 4, 2021 at 10:24         answered (2018-04-01 09:14:31Z) Apr 1, 2018 at 9:14   (/users/1395691/slake) (Slake's user avatar)    (/users/1395691/slake) Slake Slake (reputation score) 2,150 (3 gold badges)  3  3 gold badges (25 silver badges)  25  25 silver badges (32 bronze badges)  32  32 bronze badges        2 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   Where do you see OP talking about screen ? 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